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THE 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE, 



CELEBRATED AT 



GEANVILLE, MASS., 



attfltwt 27 art 28, 1345. 



SPRINGFIELD: 

PRINTED BY HORACE S. TAYLOR. 
1845. 



At a meeting of the Sons of Granville, at the close 
of the Jubilee, August 28, 1845, James Cooley, Esq. 
in the chair, on motion of Mr. Rufus H. Barlow, 

Voted unanimously, That the thanks of this meeting 

be returned to those who delivered Addresses on the 

first and second day of the Jubilee, and to Mrs. Sig- 

ourney for the truly beautiful Hymns furnished for the 

occasion, and that copies of the same be requested for 

publication. 

George W. Rose, Sec'y. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 



At a meeting of the First Church of Christ in 
Granville, Mass., Jan. 1st, 1845, the following 
Resolutions were adopted : 

1. Resolved, That whereas the first Sabbath 
in June next, will complete a half century since 
our Pastor, Rev. Timoxhy M. Cooley, D. D. 
preached his first sermon with us ; that a day be 
observed commemorative of the goodness of God, 
with appropriate religious services. 

2. Resolved, That the Sons and Daughters 
who have emigrated from us, be invited to revisit 
the home of their youth. 

3. Resolved, That James Cooley, Ardon Sey- 
mour, Jonathan B. Bancroft, Elijah Seymour and 
Edmund Barlow, be a committee of arrangements 
for the occasion. 

4. Resolved, That the Jubilee be fixed on 
Wednesday, the 27th day of August next. 

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5. Resolved, That Rev. Doct. Cooley deliver a 
historical sermon in the morning, and in the 
afternoon the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper be 
administered, and that the Rev. Doct. Hitchcock, 
President of Amherst College, a descendant of 
one of the earliest Deacons of this church, be 
invited to preach a sermon on the occasion. 

James Cooley, Moderator, pro tern. 

Granville, Jan. 1, 1845. 



SEMI-CENTENNIAL FESTIVAL. 



At a meetino- of the inhabitants of the East 
parish in Granville, on the 7th day of April, 1845. 

Voted, That we hold a Jubilee on the 27th day 
of August next, in commemoration of the fiftieth 
year since Rev. Timothy M. Cooley, D. D. preach- 
ed his first sermon in this place. 

The person who leaves the place of his nativity 
and settles in some distant part of the country, 
often meditates with delight on the scenes of his 
early life, and when he finds the evening of his 
days approaching, still cherishes with fond recol- 
lection the scenes of his youth. But in a special 
manner does the true Christian reflect on his early 
religious impressions, and he cannot forget his 
spiritual Father who directed his footsteps in the 
pathway to heaven. 

Voted, That the following persons be a com 
mittee of arrangements on the occasion : 



E. 


C. Spelman, 


J. 


P. 


Cooley, 


P. 


L. BuELL, 


II. 


II 


Barlow, 


E. 


Wright, 


B. 


C. 


Dickinson 



L. Brown, Moderator. 
E. Wright, Clerk. 

East Granville, April 7, 1845. 



OFFICERS OF THE JUBILEE. 



JAMES COOLEY, President. 



ELIJAH C. SPELMAN, 
RUFUS H. BARLOW 



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Marshals. 



Committee of 

Mr. Jona B. Bancroft, 

" Ardon Seymour, 

u Elijah Seymour, 

" Alpheus Bancroft, 

" P. L. Buell, 

" E. Wright, 

" j. p. cooley, 

" Jeptha Rose, 

" B. C. Dickinson, 

" L. Tryon, 

" L. H. Cooley, 

" J. Gillett, 

Mrs. T. M. Cooley, 2d, 

" R. Pomeroy, Jr. 



Arrangements. 
!Mrs. L. Battles, 



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ss Tirzah Parsons, 

' Sybil Parlow, 

' Jane Cooley, 

' Clarilla Spelman, 

' Clarissa Root, 

' Irene Barlow, 

' Deborah Spelman, 

' Clarissa Spelman, 

' Cynthia Parsons, 

' Delia Wells, 

' Sarah E. Tillotson, 

' Sophia Seymour. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 



FIRST DAY. 

August 27, 1845. 
At 10 o'clock, A. M. at Doct. Cooley's Church in 
East Granville, Rev. Roger Harrison, of Tolland, intro- 
duced the exercises of the day with Invocation, reading 
a portion of the Scriptures, succeeded with the following 
remarks : 

My Dear Friends : 

We are assembled to-day by the Providence 
of God, on a deeply interesting occasion: to 
celebrate with you a Jubilee. This day closes 
up a period of fifty years since your beloved 
Pastor was ordained over this church and con- 
gregation, as your Instructor in the great truths 
of the word of God, which are absolutely neces- 
sary to make us wise unto salvation. 

Rare indeed, are the instances in which the- 
connection between the minister and the church, 
and congregation over which he has been set as 
a watchman, have continued for such a length 



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of time as in the present instance. Truly, my 
friends, God has been very kind and merciful, and 
abundant in goodness to you as a church and 
people, in prolonging the life and usefulness of 
your beloved Pastor to this day. Yes, it is an 
event which so rarely takes place, that well may 
we assemble to commemorate it. My friends, 
you are under the strongest obligations, and I 
presume you sensibly feel it, this day to raise 
your grateful hearts to Heaven, and to praise God 
for such a blessing as the stated administration 
of the Gospel, and its sacred ordinances by your 
beloved Pastor, uninterrupted for fifty years. 

Your beloved Pastor and myself formed an 
acquaintance in our youthful days at Yale College, 
where we spent three years together in our classic 
studies ; only one year's difference in our college 
standing, and about three years in our ages. We 
attended to the study of Theology about the same 
time, were examined by the same association on 
the same day, and received our license to preach 
the everlasting Gospel bearing the same date, 
slept together the succeeding night in the same 
bed, and we parted the next morning, not know- 
ing that we should ever meet again in the present 
world. But Divine Providence so ordered that 
in a few years we found ourselves settled in the 
same town, where we have lived in good fellow- 



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ship and friendly intercourse to the present day; 
have exceeded the common bounds of threescore 
years and ten, we here stand before you to-day as 
the sturdy oak when the forests have been pros- 
trated by the stormy wind and raging tempest. 
Yes, while very probable, almost two generations 
in this society have been prostrated by the stroke 
of death, since the ordination of your beloved 
Pastor, he still survives, and is blessed with such 
health and strength, both of body and intellect, 
that he is able to discharge all the duties of his 
sacred office. O ! what a blessing has God 
bestowed on this church and people, and is still 
continuing it? May you, my dear friends, duly 
appreciate it, and give all the praise and the glory 
to him from Whom you have received it. 

And now, my dear friend and brother ; this 
day witnesseth to you and to me, the boundless 
mercy and goodness of our Heavenly Father. 
Truly we can say with the inspired Apostle : 
* Having obtained help of God we continue unto 
this day.' How many of our youthful compan- 
ions, our classmates, who started in the career of 
life with us, and whose prospects for length of 
days and years were perhaps as promising, are 
now mouldering in their graves. 

Yes, dear Sir, few indeed have weathered the 
storms of life, and are now on the borders of four- 



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score years. Shall we not then on this most 
interesting occasion, feel to praise God for his 
boundless mercy and loving kindness towards us? 
O ! let the remainder of our lives be devoted to 
his service ; and may we at last be found faithful 
servants, and hear the plaudit of our Divine 
Master : ' Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit 
the kingdom prepared for you before the founda- 
tion of the world.' 



SACRED MUSIC. 

WELCOME TO RETURNING EMIGRANTS AT THE HALF-CENTENNIAL 

ANNIVERSARY. 

BY MRS. 1 . H. SIGOURNEY. 

Back to the quiet scenes 

Where erst your childhood strayed ; 
Back to the green and ancient trees, 

Whose branches sweep the glade. 

Back to the sparkling streams 
That marked your infant play, 

And still a tuneful welcome speak, 
While rushing on their way. 

Back to your Pastor's side, 

The aged and the true, 
Beloved wanderers, come ! return ! 

Affection waits for you. 

Come to your father's graves, 

Who in their Saviour sleep, 
And muse upon the hallowed sod, 

Yet not to idly weep. 

But to renew your vow 

With former zeal and love, 
Their precepts and their path to keep, 

Until ye meet above. 



SALUTATORY ADDRESS. 

BY JAMES COOLEY, ES<*. 

Kindred and Friends : 

It is a duty allotted to me on this occasion, 
to tender to this assembly, and particularly the 
native emigrants from this town, the greetings 
of friendship ; to extend to you the kind saluta- 
tions of affection and love, and welcome you to 
this our Jubilee. 

To you who have come here from the far 
regions of the west and the south, or the less 
remote locations of the north and the east, we 
greet you. To you who have left your adopted 
homes to revisit these scenes of your childhood, 
kindly we greet you. The old mansions in which 
you were cradled, greet you. The rough hills 
and vallies, still occupying the same old immove- 
able positions, with their rugged smiles, greet 
you. The crystal fountains that gush from the 
hillsides and trickle in limpid streams through 
these deep vallies, greet you. The balmy winds, 
the salubrious breath of heaven, wafted down from 
these tall cliffs, teeming with the blessed elements 
of health and life, salute you. All these old 



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moss-covered granite rocks that have been dumb 
for five thousand years, have, all at once, become 
vocal, and on this occasion echo to you the voice 
of welcome. 

We are met, my friends, to commemorate the 
fiftieth anniversary of the pastoral life of our 
present minister. It is our Jubilee, hallowed by 
antiquity to mutual kindness, forbearance, and 
social benevolence, when every man is to return 
to his kindred and family. 

It is indeed no ordinary occasion. We seldom 
hear, and still more seldom see, an occasion like 
this. The annals of our country show but few 
such seasons, and a sense of grateful acknowledg- 
ment requires that it be noticed with a flow of 
rational joy and gratitude. We do not claim it 
as a cause of special excitement; nothing thril- 
ling in the event or the circumstance. 

We boast no human achievement, no deeds of 
valor, no array of armies or blood-stained battle 
fields. We boast no victory over our fellow men ; 
no roar of cannon heralds in the morning. We 
gather here to acknowledge in solemn humility, 
a remarkable event in Divine Providence, pecu- 
liarly dispensed to this i people for wise and 
benevolent purposes, and it is proper that the oc- 
casion, like the Jubilee of the Hebrews, should 
bring together long separated friends, to meet in 



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mutual congratulations, and breathe again the 
air of their fathers. 

Although we boast no deeds of human heroism, 
no triumph over a fallen foe ; yet we deem the 
occasion worthy of the generous elation of our 
hearts, that the town of Granville, humble indeed 
as we are, situated upon the Alps of New Eng- 
land, should in the Providence of God, present 
to the world so remarkable an era, a period that 
seems to fill up, as it were, an epoch in the annals 
of time. 

And in commemorating this event, we are led 
to many reflections ; some solemn, some joyful. 
If we look back to scenes of former times ; to the 
commencement of this era, it recalls to our rec- 
ollection the spirit of our ancestors ; their noble 
deeds ; and shows a bright spot in their characters 
worthy of our pride and veneration. 

Fifty years ago they laid the plan for the event 
which we have realised, and which we this day 
commemorate. By their voluntary contributions 
they raised and established a fund, the income 
of which was devoted to the perpetual support of 
a Gospel Minister. At this time, and under these 
auspices our present pastor was settled. In this 
connexion we have continued a half century. A 
generation has passed away, and a new one has 
taken their place. 

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Among the long list of those worthy donors, 
scarce a single individual remains among us. 
One by one they have gone; their names are 
erased from the subscription book, and we look 
about in vain for their faces ; they were prominent 
men in this house, but now their seats are vacant. 
We go to their old homesteads and their farm- 
houses, they are not there : we go into the fields 
and trace the familiar pathways, hallowed by 
their footsteps, we find them not ; we climb upon 
some eminence and shout aloud their names, 
they hear us not ; no answer returns ; no re- 
sponse but a sad and melancholy echo. 

* Our fathers, where are they V Where are 
the men who founded our institutions, established 
our ordinances, earned our inheritances, built our 
school-houses, and put in motion the noble system 
by which we live with so much ease and comfort ? 
Where are the men who toiled up and down 
these hills by day and by night; and the women 
too ? Those blessed mothers who nourished and 
cherished us, who gave life and sustenance, and 
energy, and capacity, and character, to this living 
multitude? Where are those good old Puritan 
standards? Gone! They have done their work 
and gone to their rest. 

* In yonder churchyard's still, secluded shade, 

Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, 

Each in their narrow cell forever laid, 
The rude forefathers of our hamlet sleep.' 



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And, blessed be God, there is a country beyond 
that lonely spot where trials cease, their toils are 
forgotten, and their reward is immortal glory. 

And may we not indulge an honest pride in 
contemplating the character of the descendants 
of this worthy ancestry 1 

Mother Granville, sterile and barren as she is, 
is not without merits. The good old lady has a 
name abroad, and she has a fair claim to a seat, 
although a low and humble one, in the temple of 
fame. She has produced a prolific progeny, and 
I may say, an honorable and a patriotic one ; 
none more so. They may justly be said to pos- 
sess the spirit and enterprise as well as the blood 
of their fathers. Travel where you will, you 
meet them. Go into the boat, the cars, the 
hotels, behind the counter, in the shops, in the 
fields, in the factories, at the bar, and in the 
Senate of the United States. But alas ! our 
Senator is no more ! We have to mourn the loss 
of one of our noble sons ; he whose voice could 
charm a Senate, and to whom the hierarchies 
would almost listen, is silent in his tomb; the 
earth covers him. That pillar in our national 
councils has fallen, and he sleeps with the illus- 
trious dead. 

If this apostrophe is a digression from my 
subject, I hope to be pardoned ; as what traveller 



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would not turn aside to drop a tear at the tomb 
of Isaac Chapman Bates. 

The address was here suspended, while the following 
Ode by Mrs. Sigourney,on the death of Mr. Bates, was 
sung by the choir. 

A voice was in the lofty halls 
Where meet the high, and great, 

And long the listener's ear enchained 
With eloquent debate. 

The voice of him who e'er maintained 
High thought, and noble deed, 

Was in its vigor lifted up, 
Still, for the right to plead. 

A sudden pause ! — That voice no more 

Upheld a nation's trust, 
But from the open grave there came 

An echo, — * dust to dust !' 

A cry of mourning from the home 
Where sweet affections dwell, 

And silence settling round the hearth 
Where his loved accents fell. 

Ah ! long shall smitten love deplore 

This fearful stroke of fate, 
And patriot virtue grateful bless 

The unforgotten great. 

I was remarking that the sons of Granville, 
were scattered abroad, and were found in every 



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station and situation in life. Many of them are 
in the learned professions, adorning the pulpit, 
the bar, and the bench of justice. 

No matter how exalted the station, they are 
adequate to its dignity. They are neither idle 
nor dull. Their views are not bounded by plan 
nor distance. They are on the shores of the 
Atlantic and the Pacific. They are on the borders 
of the lakes, they are on the Mississippi and the 
great rivers of the West, and all along from New 
Orleans to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. No 
country so remote, and no climate so inhospitable 
but they venture there. 

The same spirit of enterprise and perseverance 
that led our pilgrim fathers across the ocean, 
prompts them to go. Every breeze wafts them ; 
and when they stop, the spot on which they light, 
becomes at once a scene of industry and busi- 
ness. The great moral principles of New Eng- 
land life are planted deep, and their habitations 
soon exhibit a picture of plenty, wealth, and inde- 
pendence, and every thing that contributes to 
human comfort and happiness. 

It may be boasting ; be it so, it is nevertheless 
true, that some of the proudest states in the Union 
have received a mighty impulse from this poor 
town. Who settled western New York? Who 
opened the avenues to the Great Genesee Valley, 



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and the shores of the Lakes 1 The sons of Gran- 
ville; Oliver Phelps, Ezra Marvin, Abner Barlow. 
These were the men that planned the enterprise, 
and pursued the project that terminated in a per- 
manent settlement of that fertile region. These 
men, with others of our citizens, were the fearless 
spirits that first penetrated that wilderness. They 
cut a passage through the dense forests of the 
Mohawk and dragged their teams through mud 
and over unbridged creeks and rivers, and carried 
life and light and activity and civilization into that 
noble country. Plymouth rock never witnessed 
a bolder stroke than this. They feared nothing. 
If there were ' Lions in the way,' they tamed 
them. The Anakims they vanquished. The 
frightened savages fled before them, or settled 
down quietly by their side. These are the men 
that first turned up the turf of those rich wheat 
fields, and laid the foundations of those splendid 
cities and villages of the west. 

So also the State of Ohio. That sturdy young 
giant of the Union has had a swarm from this old 
hive, which has spread an influence over that land 
which will tell as long as time lasts. 

Forty years ago, the whole lake shore of that 
state was a mere waste ; a darksome forest. The 
wild Indian paddled his bark canoe along those 
beautiful waters and streams. The rough lake 



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winds whistled through the forests. No civilized 
foot was there, until our citizens opened the way. 
It is well remembered what numbers left this 
place. Whole families, men, women and children, 
old and young, abandoned their native home, to 
seek their fortunes in this new country. This was 
an enterprise few men would undertake. 

A long journey of seven hundred miles was 
before them. No railroads, no canals or steam- 
boats; a mere over-land journey, through swamps 
and untrod deserts; a constant toil by day and by 
night for more than forty days. But they were 
the choice spirits of New England ; legitimate 
sons of old Granville, who shrunk at no hardship 
and feared no peril. They saw in the heavens 
the pillar and the cloud ; they placed their hopes 
and their anticipations, and their all in the most 
high God, and thus they passed the Jordan. The 
walls of Jericho crumbled down before them, and 
with loud hosannas, they placed their feet upon 
the promised land. Here they were like the 
precious ' hundred and one,' that landed from the 
May Flower two hundred years before ; worn out 
with fatigue. No dwelling to cover them ; no 
father, or brothers, or friends to receive and wel- 
come them ; a howling wilderness before them ; 
their funds probably exhausted. But, if they had 
nothing in their pockets, their heads and hearts 



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were full ; they had untired courage and strong 
moral and intellectual power. The sun, moon 
and stars were shining above them in all their 
brilliancy, and the blessed canopy of heaven was 
dropping down manna in their paths. 

From the rude cabin of logs and bark, rolled 
up in a single day, has succeeded the stately 
mansion ; churches and colleges have arisen all 
over the country, and adorn the land like brilliants 
in the coronet of a prince. Wealth and plenty 
surround them ; prosperity and comfort prevails 
in their dwellings ; and great joy and rejoicing 
in their habitations. 

And now, my friends, may you enjoy the fes- 
tivities of this day with all its anticipated pleasures, 
and when we part, may you still be under the 
guidance of that power whose tender mercies are 
over all his works ; and may we all hereafter meet 
to spend an unending Jubilee in mansions not 
made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 



NAMES OF THE CHOIR OF SINGERS AT THE 
JUBILEE, AUGUST, 1845. 
Orville Noble, Chorister. 

James P. Cooley, Organist. 



James S. Andrews, 
Porter E. Gowdy, 
Eliphalet Wright, 
David Kellogg, 
Orson Gibbons, 
Orsemus Gibbons, 
Martin Gibbons, 
Chauncey Howe, 
Carleton Brown, 
Newton Seymour, 
Henry Clark, 
Sanford Clark, 
Milton Seymour, 
Asa Seymour, 
George King, 
Linus Gibbons, 
Moses Gibbons, 
Henry Tryon, 
Franklin Cooley, 
Edward Spelman, 
Tirzah M. Parsons, 
Sarah S. Ranney, 
Sarah A. Noble, 
Julia H. Bates, 



Lucina Spelman, 
Sybil C. Andrews, 
Celia E. Brown, 
Maria M. Kellogg, 
Elizabeth Gibbons, 
Martha Gibbons, 
Sarah E. Tillotson, 
Jane Parsons, 
Flora Hodge, 
Alzira Rose, 
Laura Seymour, 
Caroline Bancroft, 
Martha Gibbons, 
Mary Gibbons, 
Lucina Gibbons, 
Charlotte Gibbons, 
Caroline Seymour, 
Elizabeth Clark, 
Almira Tillotson, 
Susan Rose, 
Ellen Cooley, 
Abigail Hatch, 
Maria Hatch. 



HISTORICAL DISCOURSE. 



IV REV. DOCT. COOLEY. 



Love of home is a principle which we all 
honor. We look back upon the scenes of early 
life with a kind of hallowed enthusiasm. The 
recollections of the family circle, the humble 
school-house, the hill-side for winter pastime : 
especially the recollection of the great family 
Bible, the morning and evening prayer, the Satur- 
day evening catechising, mingled with councils 
and tears, are all written on the mind as with the 
'diamond's point.' 

Wherever the spirit of adventure or enterprise 
may have borne you, love of home, sooner than 
any other emotion, will call forth the tears of 
joyous and painful recollections. Moved by this 
honorable affection, an unwonted multitude are 
now crowding around us. 

Sons and daughters of Granville, we welcome 
you here. In obedience to our call you have come 
from the great West, from the South and from the 
North ; from remote cities and villages, from the 
farm-house, the workshop and the counting-room ; 
from the toils and cares of professional life, you 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 27 

have come to celebrate the Granville Jubilee. I 
repeat it, We welcome you all here. We 
welcome you to this pure air which you breathed 
in your infancy, and to this pure water from the 
mountain rock. We welcome you to our houses 
and to our hearts. Especially do we welcome 
you into this ' Holy of Holies,' where your godly 
fathers and mothers loved to meet, where many of 
you were dedicated with baptismal water, and 
where not a few of you having believed on the 
Lord Jesus, here in these courts ' sealed your 
engagement to be the Lord's. 5 

You have come to visit the place of your fathers' 
sepulchres ; how appropriate therefore to com- 
memorate the virtues of those to whom under God 
we are indebted for our most valuable blessings. 

The sons of Granville love and revere the 
place which gave them birth. True, indeed, we 
have nothing whereof to glory ; we are but a 
speck on the map of our country. Scarcely are 
we known beyond the rock-bound mountains 
which surround us. 

We have no peculiar water privileges, no facto- 
ries with their ten thousand spindles, no rich 
prairies with golden wheat harvests ; indeed, no 
place will suffer us to claim a kindred, except 
perhaps the 'High Alps' of Switzerland. We 
have, however here, among these rocks and hill 



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sides, mind which is capable of the diamond 
polish. God in his providence has raised up a 
generation here, who have spread themselves 
through the land, and by their enterprise and 
virtuous deeds, have reflected honor upon their 
parents and their birth place. 

The first inhabitants of this town were descend- 
ants of the pilgrims, and some of them can trace 
their origin to the ' hundred and one ' who landed 
on Plymouth rock. More than a century has 
rolled away since the first adventurer fixed his 
humble dwelling here, (1736). By a little aid of 
the imagination, we seem to see the lonely 
pilgrim, with no associate but the wife of his 
youth, bidding farewell to home and kindred, and 
wending his way to these untrodden wilds. It 
was then as great an enterprise to emigrate from 
Springfield to Bedford, (the early name of this 
town,) as it is now to travel to the Rocky moun- 
tains. 

Samuel Bancroft, of Springfield, was the first 
settler ; he built the first rude cabin here, and 
may be regarded as the patriarch of Granville. 
He was a facetious, kind hearted, industrious 
man, a little below mediocrity in stature. Some 
of us remember him well, when he appeared 
abroad, especially on the Sabbath, in his antique' 
dress, with his triangular cocked hat, and the still 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE 29 

more imposing appendage of a white bush wig, 
inspiring the reverence of beholders. He was 
one of the first board of Selectmen in Granville, 
and in 1775 was chosen Representative to the 
General Court in Watertown. 

The next settlers were Daniel Cooley, Jonathan 
Rose, Samuel Gillett, Thomas Spelman, John 
Root, Ephraim Manson, Phineas Pratt, and Tho- 
mas Brown, Esq. 

A little later, Jabez Dunham, Peter Gibbons, 
Jonathan Church ; and still later, Asa Seymour, 
Esq. The longevity of our ancestors was remark- 
able. The ancestor of the Spelmans died at the 
age of 93 ; of the Roots, 91 ; of the Churches, 
95; Cooleys, 90; Gilletts, 87; Gibbons, 92; 
Rose, 103. The manner in which some of them 
came to their end, was also remarkable. Sam- 
uel Gillett fell dead while walking in his field ; 
the first death in Granville, 1739. Samuel 
Bancroft retired in health and died before morn- 
ing ; Daniel Cooley died of a wound ; Jonathan 
Rose perished in his burning buildings ; Ephraim 
Manson while working off his potash, at a late 
hour of night, slipped into the boiling caldron, 
while at its most intense heat ; though he rescued 
himself so as to give alarm, died in a few hours- 
The skin came off from his hands entire, like a 
glove. While the voice of promise said : ' Thy 
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days shall be long upon the land which the Lord 
thy God giveth thee,' another voice cried : ' Be 
ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, 
the Son of man cometh.' 

The first house in Middle Granville was built 
by David Rose, mostly of stone, as a safe-guard 
against savage invasion. The other early settlers 
were John Bates, David Clark, the Robinsons, 
Parsons, Curtisses, Coes, and Baldwins. The 
West Parish, (for I shall speak of the three 
parishes as they were before the incorporation of 
Tolland,) was not settled till the year 1750. The 
early inhabitants were James Barlow, Samuel 
Hubbard, Moses Goff, Titus Fowler, Esq., David 
Fowler, Robert Hamilton, Thomas Hamilton, and 
James Hamilton. 

The town of Granville was purchased by 
Anthony Mather, of one Toto, an Indian sachem. 
It lies on the eastern part of one of the ranges 
of the Green Mountains, having Connecticut line 
for its southern boundary. Length, fifteen miles ; 
breadth, seven miles on the west boundary, and 
five miles on the east, comprising 41,193 acres. 
In the distribution of settling lots, 2,070 acres 
were appropriated to public uses. 

In 1754, it was incorporated and ' invested 
with the powers and privileges and immunities 
that towns in the province do, or may enjoy, that 



GRANVILLE J U B I L E E . 31 

of sending a representative to the the general 
court excepted. 

The war spirit which has spread ' weeping, 
lamentation and woe through the earth,' was early 
felt in this peaceful and retired settlement. Our 
country from the first, has been the scene of 
sanguinary achievements. Necessity compelled 
our fathers to make provisions for self-preserva- 
tion. 

* The band of persecuted believers soon became 
a band of Christian soldiers.' 

Massachusetts, 'the cradle of the Independence,' 
furnished one third of the soldiers for the war of 
the revolution,* and few towns in the state, of 
no greater resources, contributed more efficient 
means in the prosecution of that eventful struggle 
than the town of Granville. 

The aggressive acts of the British Parliament 
caused an excitement, like an electric spark, to 
fly through the States. Our fathers caught the 
patriotic enthusiasm, and as early as July 11th, 
1774, a town meeting was held, and a committee 
raised 'to inspect the debate subsisting between 
the mother country and the inhabitants of 
America. 

The committee were Timothy Robinson, Esq., 

* Whole number 220, 000, of which Massachusetts|furnishcd 09,000. 



32 G R A K V I L L E J V B I L E E 

Dea. Luke Hitchcock, Hon. Oliver Phelps, Jo- 
siah Harvey Esq., Lieut. Samuel Bancroft, Na- 
than Barlow, and John Hamilton. At a future 
meetings the committee reported a number of 
spirited and patriotic resolutions, which were 
adopted unanimously. The following is a speci- 
men : ' That the inhabitants of his majesty's 
province, and the other colonies in America are 
justly entitled to all the rights, liberties, and 
privileges that the inhabitants of Great Britain 
are entitled to, and we would humbly request, 
and confidently challenge these rights, liberties, 
and privileges to us belonging, as free, natural 
born, English subjects.' 

' That it is our opinion, that the acts of 
Parliament are calculated to enslave those, his 
majesty's free and loyal subjects in America.' 

' That in order to obtain redress from the 
calamities in which we are so deeply involved, 
it is our opinion that a suspension of all com- 
merce with Great Britain be solemnly subscribed 
to by the people.' 

This is the language, and these were the 
movements of high-minded, patriotic men. 

Here is the wisdom, the intelligence, the 
decision of character, the unflinching courage, 
the love of liberty, which marked the character 
of our fathers, and our country in ' times which 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 33 

tried mens' souls.' Here is not the moh-spirit, 
but the dignified style of men ' resolved to be 
free.' In less than one year after this, the firs 
blood was shed at Lexington, April 19th, 1775. 

In March 1775, this town voted to raise fifty 
pounds, to encourage fifty men to enlist as 
' minute men.' 

In 1781 'the town raised .£756 9s 4d, silver 
money, as a bounty to encourage sixty men to enlist 
in the continental army.' It cost them blood as 
well as treasure. 

The flower and strength of the town were under 
enlistment, and as many as fourteen perished in 
the army. Cromwell's soldiers carried the Bible 
into the field, in their pockets ; not a few of ours, 
it is believed, carried it in their hearts. 

Isaac Chapman, a young man of fervent piety, 
and of great excellence, having left his youthful 
and beautiful wife, with an infant* in her arms, 
died in the camp, at Ticonderoga, and was 
buried on the banks of Lake Champlain. 

Luke Hitchcock, a pillar in the town, a pillar 
and an officer in the church, being one of a 
volunteer company, for an attack on Crown 
Point, died of the camp fever, in New Lebanon, 
on his homeward march, at the house of one Mr. 

* Madam Content Cooley. 



34 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

Douglass, who was friendly enough to take him 
in for the night. 

Enos Seaward, a son of pious parents, died at 
New London. John Bartlett, in the battle at 
White Plains, took aim at one of the light horse, 
as he was rushing towards him, and his piece 
missing fire, the enemy with his broad sword 
severed his head in the midst, and the two parts 
fell upon his shoulders. Two of our men fell at 
Stone Arabia, mingling their blood with that of 
many of the brave sons of Massachusetts, in the 
murderous attack of the indians on the banks of 
the Mohawk. 

'Here few shall part where many meet, 
The snow shall be their winding sheet, 
And every turf beneath their feet 
Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.' 

Oh ! how fervently must we cry to God, that 
he would 'rebuke the nations, and that men may 
learn war no more.' 

But let us turn from these affecting recitals to 
a subject which is friendly to universal peace 
and good will to men. 

The maxim of the pilgrims ; ' a school for 
every district, a Bible for every family, a minister 
for every town,' was very fully carried out by our 
pious fathers. As early as 1762, the town voted 
to raise .£20 for the support of schools, and each 



G R A N V I t !. 15 JUBILEE. 35 

succeeding year, 1775 arid 1776 excepted, the 
town made appropriations for elementary instruc- 
tion. 

In 183? an Academy was erected in Middle 
Granville, which is exerting a good influence in 
the cause of education. 

We are not behind other places in liberally 
educated, distinguished, and self-made men. As 
many as thirty have received literary degrees 
from American Colleges. 
*Rufus Harvey, 
Timothy M. Cooley, 
Elijah Bates, 
*Stephen Twining, 
*David B. Curtiss, 
Truman Baldwin, 
*Isaac Chapman Bates, 
Seth M. Leavenworth, 
*Gurdon Hall, 
*Lorrin Chittendon Hatch, 
John Seward, 
Harvey Coe, 
Charles F. Bates, 
Junius H. Hatch, 
*Charles Stebbius Robinson. 
Thomas Twining, 
Roger C. Hatch, 
Timothy Chapman Cooley, 
Augustus Pomerov, 



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Fourteen ministers, ten lawyers, two physi- 
cians. Several, without academical privileges, 
have risen to honor and usefulness. 

Hon. Oliver Phelps, by his own efforts, rose 
from the humble condition of a servant boy, to 
a seat in the Governor's Council ; as Commis- 
sary for the American army, he merited and 
received the thanks of the Commander in Chief. 
He removed to Canandaigua, N. Y., and was 
member of Congress and Judge in Ontario 
county. Died 26th Feb., 1809. 

Col. Timothy Robinson possessed talents of a 
high order. As a civil magistrate, he tried 
many causes, and in no instance was his decision 
reversed in a higher court. 

^Deceased. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 37 

In the time of Shay's rebellion, he and a 
company of the ' court party,' on their way to 
Springfield, in defence of government, v/ere 
met by a party of the mob, double their number, 
and after a skirmish, near the great rock, were 
taken prisoners. The Colonel, as being the most 
obnoxious, was confined under a strong guard. 
Next day was Sabbath, and he read and prayed 
with them, and discoursed on state affairs, setting 
forth the moral wrong of resisting law by arms, 
especially when the people have all the power at 
the ballot box, of redressing their wrongs, by 
changing their rulers. They listened to their 
prisoner, for he wept and they wept. The 
result was, they all became politically converted, 
and the very next day, he and his guard proceed- 
ed to Springfield in the cause of ' law and order.' 

In an hour of darkest and deepest affliction, 
he shewed an instance of calm submission which 
I cannot omit to mention. He was father of a 
brilliant family ; all except one being daughters ; 
a favorite was connected with a clergyman in 
Vermont. Having taken leave and gone to her 
new home ; she had scarcely laid aside her bridal 
dress, when news flew back, as if the winds had 
given it speed, that their daughter died suddenly, 
and that by opium taken by her own hand. 

The mother and the daughters shrieked and 
4 



38 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

cried aloud for grief and agony. The father 
entered the room at the moment, and with 
sternness of rebuke, characteristic of great minds, 
stamped upon the floor, and hushed the tumult ; 
and then sitting down, with great parental kind- 
ness, commenced a train of remarks to sooth the 
broken heart and vindicate the sovreignty, 
goodness, and tender mercy of God. The effect 
was most happy. 

Rev. Lemuel Haynes, when abandoned by his 
natural, or rather unnatural mother, found a 
home and a mother's care in this place. He was 
bound out as a servant, at the age of five months, 
and at the age of twenty-seven, in spite of all the 
prejudices of color aud cast, he occupied a pulpit 
in this place, with universal approbation. 

The apple tree is still standing, where the 
Saviour found him and made him free. The 
story of the Saturday evening sermon, and the 
chimney corner education of Lemuel Haynes is 
worthy of being told on the banks of the Senegal, 
in the days of the millenium. 

Hon. Timothy Rose was the instrument of 
planting a colony in the centre of Ohio. His 
name, like that of William Penn, will be long 
held in affectionate remembrance. 

Hon. John Phelps, graduate of Harvard Uni- 
versity ; High Sheriff of Hampden County, was 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 39 

distinguished for his activity, kindness, and 
generosity. 

Asa Seymour, Esq., with a very scanty educa- 
tion, exerted great influence. He was remarkable 
for short convincing speeches in town meeting. 
After giving out his three or four brief sentences 
on some difficult and vexing subject, it was ' as 
when in old time they asked counsel at Abel, and 
so they ended the matter.' 

James Barlow, Esq., by industry, and integrity, 
and kindness, merited the love of all ; the friend 
of the friendless. 

Joel Root, Esq., without patrimony, by habits 
of economy and industry accumulated an amount 
of wealth attained by few. 

Hezekiah Robinson, Esq., though a humble 
mechanic, was a benefactor to the world. His 
shop was the resort of the poor and friendless 
young man, many of whom by the influence of 
his business habits and unfeigned piety, are now 
among the most respectable sons of Granville. 

The lamented Noah Cooley, Esq., was a self 
made man. His sun went down while it was 
yet noon. He left a valuable patrimony to his 
orphan and amiable children ; and what is better 
than wealth, the legacy of an unblemished repu- 
tation. 

Rev. Gurdon Hall was born in West Gran- 



40 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

ville, April 8, 1784, and gave early indications of 
talents of the first order. 

Rev. Roger Harrison, a boarder in the family 
of his father, proposed to young Hall the subject 
of acquiring a liberal education, which pleased 
him much. His father was much opposed, but 
Hall was nol to be moved from his purpose, and 
by his ' constant pleading,' and by the ' inter- 
cession and advice of his minister,' at length 
obtained his father's consent, and at the age of 
nineteen, commenced his studies preparatory for 
college, with Rev. Mr. Harrison. 

He was instructed with accuracy, and said 
President Fitch, on his examination for admis- 
sion into Williams College, ' He understands the 
very radix of the languages.' In the course of 
College life, a revival commenced in his native 
place, and during vacation, his mind which had 
been hitherto thoughtless, was somewhat im- 
pressed, and on his return to college, a powerful 
revival commenced in that Institution. 

Hall was among the most prominent subjects. 
He was one of those ' choice spirits' in Williams 
College, in whose breasts was first kindled a zeal 
for missions among the heathen. ' On Wednesday 
afternoon,' says President Griffin, 'they used to 
retire for prayer to the bottom of the valley 
south of the west college, and on Saturday 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE 41 

afternoons, to the more remote meadow, on the 
bank of the Hoosack ; and there, under the 
haystacks, those young Elijahs prayed into exis- 
tance the embryo of American Missions to the 
heathen, 5 

He was valedictory orator when he was 
graduated at Williams College. He was one of 
the first company of American Missionaries to 
heathen lands. No one was more eminently 
qualified. He possessed hardihood and great 
physical strength. He outlived several of the 
mission family. Pie sent his wife and two sons 
to his native land, and he soon heard the painful 
intelligence that one of the dear boys died on his 
passage, and the great deep was his grave. The 
other son survives, and is a youth of great promise. 

On the 2d of March, 1826, Mr. Hall left the 
Mission House at -Bombay, on a tour, expecting 
to return in one month. Alas ! he went to that 
' bourne from whence no traveller returns !' 

On the 20th he died at Doorlee Dapoor, aged 
42 years. On the preceding day he reached 
the heathen temple, in good health. At four in 
the morning he was seized by the hand of death. 
He had disposed of the last particle of medicine 
he had with him, and had now none for himself. 
He counselled and prayed with those around him, 
and sweetly fell asleep on the bosom of Jesus, 
4* 



42 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

Last, but not least ; the Hon. Isaac Chapman 
Bates, the statesman, the Christian, the eloquent 
orator, whose voice has long been heard in the 
Legislature of the nation, and whom we hoped 
to have seen on this day, has died to live. He 
slumbers in the same grounds with Strong, and 
Hooker, and Stoddard, and Brainard, honorable 
and pious dead, without leaving an enemy to 
plant a thorn upon his grave. 

I could not omit these ' meditations among the 
tombs.' I might prolong them, but I forbear. 
It is an office of great delicacy to characterize 
the dead, and still more so, the living. 

Hon. Anson V. Parsons, of Pennsylvania ; Hon. 
Samuel B^croft, of Ohio; Elijah Bates, Esq., 
Enoch Drake, Esq., Silas Winchell, Esq., Hon. 
Patrick Boise, a son of Granville by adoption, 
James Cooley, Esq., Vincent Holcomb, Esq., Isra- 
el Parsons, Esq., Joseph J. West, the Barlows, 
Spelmans, Cooleys, Roses, Dickinsons, Bancrofts 
Coes, Robinsons, Gibbonses, Marvins, Ameses; 
and many others of the sons of Granville, dis- 
persed from New Orleans to the lakes of the 
North, to whom we might make reference, are 
names whom we wish to commemorate on this 
occasion. Indeed, to every son and daughter, 
born within our bounds, we desire to extend the 
benediction : ' The Lord bless you and keep you. 
The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 43 

be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his 
countenance upon you and give you peace. 

I have spoken of the school house ; the meeting 
house rose up promptly by its side. Our first 
house of worship was erected at so early a date, 
that no record tells when the corner stone thereof 
was laid. There is a faint tradition that when it 
was raised, every man, woman and child in the 
town, could be comfortably seated on the sills of 
the house. The house had no bell, nor cushions, 
nor carpet, nor stoves, nor blinds, nor organ, for 
the comfort and delight of the worshippers ; but 
there were warm hearts which might well put to 
blush many of their descendants. 

The meeting house in Middle Granville was 
built in 1778. The first in West Granville was 
raised in 1795, and the second was begun, 
finished and dedicated in 1843. The Baptist 
meeting house was finished in 1824; and this 
house in which we are now assembled was raised 
May 27th, 1802, and dedicated Nov. 10th. The 
bell was a free-will offering, from the ladies 
of the parish ; and their daughters, by their own 
industry, have contributed many articles ' to 
beautify the house of the Lord.' 

These six houses, built for God, well propor- 
tioned, and well finished, are a testimony that 
the inhabitants are not infidels, but Christians ; 



44 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

and that they appreciate in some sense, the 
hallowing principles of the Christian religion. 
They have not been reared up as an engine of 
state policy, or merely as an ornament to our 
villages, but as places of sacred resort, where ' the 
rich and the poor meet together ' to worship him 
'who is the Maker of them all.' 

Measures have not been wanting to supply 
these pulpits with a pious, orthodox ministry. 

In West Granville, a church was organized in 
1797, 1 and Jan. 13th 1791), Rev. Roger Harrison 
was ordained, and is still living. Rev. Alonzo 
Sanderson, the present Pastor, was ordained July 
12, 1844. 

In Middle Granville, the church 2 was formed 
Nov. 17th, 1781, and Rev. Aaron J. Booge 
ordained as Pastor, Nov. 17th, 1786, and his 
ministry of six years was closed by dismission. 

Rev. Joel Baker was ordained Jan. 21, 1797. 
He continued the faithful and successful pastor 
till his death. He was especially gifted in prayer, 
and in pastoral visitation. The last year of his 
life he was unable to preach, and was assisted 



1 Deacons, Thomas Twining, Marvin Moore, Silas Knight, William 
Freeman, Warren Gates, Philo Smith, Edward L. Tinker, Elizur D. 
Moore. 

This church was formed by a council, consisting of Rev. Messrs. 
Nathaniel Gaylord, Jacob Catlin, D. D., and Timothy M. Cooley. 

2 Comprising twenty eight members, fourteen males and fourteen 
females. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 45 

by a colleague; and in Sept. 1832, with great 
peace and in the full assurance of hope, he fell 
asleep in Jesus. His successors were Rev. Scth 
Chapin, and Rev. Henry Eddy. The present 
pastor is Rev. Calvin Foote, installed Sept. 1st, 
1841. 1 

The Baptist church in East Granville, was 
organized, Feb. 19, 1791, and in 1808 numbered 
eighty-two members. In 1798, Elder Christopher 
Miner preached with them, continuing as stated 
supply for ten years. 

Rev. Silas Root was ordained pastor, Jan. 5, 
1817. His successors were Rev. Richard Grif- 
fing, Rev. John Higby. The present pastor is 
Rev George D. Felton. 2 

This beloved sister church though of another 
name, has risen up by our side, and we cheerfully 
give her the right hand of fellowship. 

If we do not hold to one baptlspi, we agree in 
* one Lord and one faith,' and we do not reject 
those whom Christ receives ; and if we do not 
'go to the same house of God in company' we 
can ' take sweet counsel together.' And if we 
do not ' see eye to eye' so as to meet at the same 
' table of the Lord's supper,' we hope to meet at 
the ' marriage supper of the Lamb.' 



1 Deacons, Timothy Robinson, Aaron Coc, Elihu Adkins, Elihu 
Pomeroy, Hezekiah Robinson, Nathan Parsons, George Shepard, 
Lyman Shepard. 

2 Deacons, Elijah Spelman, Lemuel Bancroft. 



46 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

No record tells us when the first congregational 
church was formed in Granville, and the first 
pastor ordained. The early inhabitants lived in 
the time of the ' great awakening ' in the days 
of Edwards and Whitefield, and some of them 
heard the living voices of those holy men, when 
30,000, or even 50,000 were born into the King- 
dom of Christ. The first members of this church, 
warm-hearted from the pungent sermons of 
Reynolds, Pomeroy, Devotion, Chauncey, and 
Russell, planted themselves here, because, as one 
of the members piously remarked, ' it is the 
very best place to prepare for heaven.' They 
assembled on these hill sides, without concert, 
and with no bond of union, except the glowing 
love of young converts. When they had been 
here about eleven years, few and feeble, but 
strong in faith, they had a meeting house, a 
church organization, and a settled pastor. Rev. 
Moses Tuttle, the first minister, a graduate of 
Yale College, was ordained about 1747. His 
wife was one of the ten daughters of Rev. Tim- 
othy Edwards, of East Windsor, and sister of 
the great Jonathan Edwards of Northampton ; 
and it is a pleasing conjecture, and not improba- 
ble, that his brother in law, and perhaps, the 
venerable father, nearly four score years old, 
were present and aided in the ordination solem- 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 4? 

nities. Mr. Tuttle was an orthodox, and faithful 
minister, and his short ministry, of six years, was 
blessed with prosperity and peace. The good 
man, after his dismission, preached in various 
places, and died in peace at Southhold, Long- 
Island, in a good old age. 

'March, 1753, the church in Bedford, in their 
desolate circumstances, held a meeting ; chose 
David Rose moderator, Ebenezer Seaward, clerk. 
Agreed that Cambridge platform be read. Agreed 
that some persons be chosen to examine said 
platform, and give their thought concerning the 
meaning of it.' 

' Firstly, we agree that grace is of absolute 
necessity to the right receiving of the Lord's 
Supper, and we find no Divine rule for a wrong 
receiving of it. 

' We agree that if any person shall manifestly 
declare that the Lord's supper is a converting 
ordinance, he shall not be admitted into our 
fellowship.' 

We admire these plain principles for their 
brevity, and their orthodoxy. At this early pe- 
riod, error was abroad in the land, and the 
famous Mr. Stoddard of Northampton, and a 
majority of the churches in Hampshire county, 
believed and professed, that ' the sacrament of 
the Lord's supper was a converting ordinance.' 



48 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

The great Edwards was not suffered to make his 
plea against this delusive error. It is grateful to 
know that the little church here were 'valiant 
for the truth.' 

'In Sept. 1755, Mr. Cornelius Jones received 
a call to the pastoral office, but declined it.' 

'In August 3d, 1766, voted that Mr. Jedediah 
Smith be a minister in Granville.' He was to 
receive as settlement, o£100, and as salary <£50 
annually, and his wood, and after the French 
war, <£5 was to be added. 

In Dec. 1756, he was ordained to the pastoral 
office. The second week after the ordination, 
the church met and re-affirmed their opposition 
to the Stoddardean practice. 

' At an adjourned meeting, Mr. Justus Rose 
was called, upon probation, and upon proof and 
trial for the office of Deacon. 

'Voted, that Watts's psalms be sung.' 

The movements of this church are marked, 
thus far, with great prudence. Justus Rose then 
32 years old, was called to the office of deacon, 
but not without 'proof and trial.' Nothing was 
done with haste. The introduction of a new 
psalm book, was not attempted, without the action 
of the church. Thus commenced the ministry 
of Mr. Smith. 

Said Lemuel Haynes : ' He was an evangelical 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 49 

preacher. He used to make, at times, consider- 
able impsession on my mind. He used zealously 
to call upon the youth to remember their Creator. 

' He would preach to us the dreadful state of 
the damned.' 

From such a church and from such a pastor, 
it was to be expected that the blessing of God 
would not be withheld. 

In the second and third years of his ministry, 
was experienced one of those heavenly refresh- 
ings, which are the glory of our churches. 

The spirit of God came down to open the 
eyes of the blind to their lost condition. 

Says one of the subjects : ' I found that for all 
my doings and good duties and strivings, I was 
not a whit nearer heaven than before. I contin- 
ued lamenting my miserable condition until God 
was pleased to take away my burden.' 

In the copious records of this blessed work of 
God's grace, which time has spared, there is no 
intimation of exalting human agency. All the 
glory is ascribed to the Holy Ghost. 

As many as thirty were added to the church 
by profession, and their influence has been 
perceptibly felt in the town for more than half a 
century. 

In a work of God's holy spirit, one is taken 
and another is left. Many fair moralists were 
5 



50 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

unaffected. A quickened conscience, however, 
could not fail of discerning, that a fearful line 
of demarcation was now drawn between them- 
selves and professing Christians. 

The Stoddardean principle, that ' the sacrament 
was a converting ordinance,' suited the wants of 
the self-righteous formalists. Mr. Smith was 
known to favor these views. The subject was 
discussed in open town meeting, and at length a 
council was called in to crush down the orthodox 
in the church. I cannot give you the details. 
The result was, that the doors of the church 
were flung open, and all persons, ' outwardly clean 
and doctrinally taught ' were admitted to the 
Lord's supper without the pretence of piety 
Halfway-covenanters (so called) were admitted to 
the privilege of baptism for their children. 

Now, ' the glory was departed.' The pure 
principles of the church which had been affirmed 
and reaffirmed, were now abandoned. The best 
members ' hung their harps upon the willows, 
and wept when they remembered Zion.' Some 
were offended and withdrew, and set up a meet- 
ing in a barn, styling themselves separates. The 
church proceeded to call them to account as 
covenant breakers. For the space of three years 
and a half, painful efforts were made to reclaim 
them, but without effect. The church sent them 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 51 

the first and second admonition, according to 
apostolic order, and as these measures were 
unheeded, they cut them off by excommunication. 

Here a division commenced which time has 
failed to heal. 

The remaining years of Mr. Smith's ministry 
were tumultuous and unblessed. Council after 
council was called in, to advise and to heal, but 
in vain. The separates were accused of cove- 
nant-breaking, the pastor of ' changing his 
principles,' and the church with ' holding fellow- 
ship with unsanctified men.' Crimination begat 
recrimination, till at length, the pastor, seeing 
no prospect of usefulness or cessation of strife, 
resolved to ask a dismission. Accordingly, the 
pastoral relation was dissolved April 16, 1776. 

Mr. Smith is spoken of as a man 'of re- 
markable piety, pleasantness and affability.' He 
immediately left the place with his numerous 
family, leaving many warm personal friends here. 
He embarked at Middletown Conn., for the 
South, and died on his passage up the Mississippi 
river. The funeral rites were attended, and he 
was buried on the land, but as the river gradually 
encroached upon the shore, the remains of my 
venerable predecessor, long since were washed 
away by the ' father of waters.' 

A council was called by the church in their 



52 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

1 desolate circumstances,' and in the result, a 
new platform of church government, comprising 
essentially, the primitive principles of the church* 
was recommended. 

On the first day of the year 1777, the church 
convened and observed a day of fasting and 
prayer, and renewal of covenant. They met 
again the second day, and resolved ' that those 
men that were at the gathering of the church in 
Bedford should be the men to lead in the renewal 
of covenant.' 

Thus the church was purged from corruptions 
and abuses and restored to her primeval purity- 
And if our venerable fathers could now come to 
us in their funereal vestments, how would they 
warn us to beware of abusing divine institutions, 
and trifling with sacramental seals : ' For unto 
the wicked, God saith, what hast thou to do to 
declare my statutes, or that thou shouldst take 
my covenant in thy mouth.' 

No wonder that the sacred seal of infant 
baptism, which had been applied to the children 
of unbelievers, should consequently be under- 
valued and neglected. 

The church was now but a remnant. 

* The council which gave this seasonable advice comprised the 
following persons : 

Pastors — Rev. Stephen West, D. D., Rev. Jonathan Huntington, 
Rev. Daniel Collins, Rev. Lemuel Munson. Delegates : James 
Gray, Nathan Leonard, Lemuel Collins. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 53 

The separates were excluded on the one hand 
and the Stoddardeans on the other. 

' The daughter of Zion was left as a cottage 
in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucum- 
bers, as a beseiged city.' If Deacon Justus Rose 
and his four brothers who acted with him ; Dea. 
Howe, the Coes and the Robinsons, who stood 
faithful among the faithless ;' if they had 
forsaken the church and joined with the separates 
on the one hand, or Stodardeans on the other, 
our Zion must have died without a helper, and 
infidels would have scoffed at her dying groans. 
But the Lord said : ' Destroy it not for a blessing 
is in it.' 

Seventeen hundred and eighty-seven was ' a 
year of the right hand of the Almighty.' God 
was pleased to send into this place a preacher of 
the gospel by the name of Barnabas Lathrop, a 
modest, holy man, of moderate talents and 
limited education. He came among us, as if 
dropped down from heaven, no one knew how 
or from whence. His method in the pulpit was 
very earnest, ' and the Lord was with him.' For 
thirty years neither rain nor dew had fallen upon 
these ' mountains of Gilboa.' He ventured to 
say to one of the deacons of the church : ' There 
is going to be an awakening here.' God's time f 
' his set time to favor Zion was come/ and the 
5* 



54 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

Holy Spirit was poured out copiously upon the 
children of the church. Those who had ' caused 
divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine 
which they had received,' were left almost wholly 
unblest. As many as forty gave evidence of 
having passed from death unto life. Dec. 17, 
within a few days of ten years after the church 
had ' kept a day of fasting and prayer, and 
renewal of covenant,' was observed as a day of 
Thanksgiving, and of examining candidates for 
admission. Jan. 26, 1788, about thirty were 
admitted to the communion by Rev. Mr. Gillett 
of Torrington.* Memorable day ! Such as had 
never been before witnessed in this place. Mr. 
Lathrop received a call for settlement, but through 
want of unanimity in the church and concurrence 
in the society, it was a failure, and the good man 
silently retired, whether into some obscure corner 
of the earth, or whether he has been dismissed 
to his rest, we have no means of deciding. 

Rev. William Bradford labored several years 
as a stated supply, and although no revival 
occurred, he was blessed as a peace-maker, in 
healing divisions in the church, and thus prepar- 
ing it for united action, in calling and settling a 
minister of the gospel. 



* His text was, Jer. 3 19 : ' But I said, how shall I put thee among 
the children. 1 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 'OO 

March 16, 1789, Mr. Sylvester Sage was 
invited to settle here in the work of the ministry, 
but refused.. Dec. 14, 1792, the church gave a 
call to Mr. Silas Churchill, to become their pastor, 
but he declined it. 

A half century has passed away since, with 
trembling, inexperienced steps, I entered this 
pulpit for the first time. Having on the 2(3th of 
May, 1795, at a meeting of the ministers of New 
Haven East association, at the house of Rev. 
Doct. Goodrich of Durham, received liceuce to 
preach the gospel, my first sermons on the first 
Sabbath in June, were preached in this pulpit. 
An event occurred here, the last and the least to 
be expected, in the common course of human 
events. On the 15th of Nov. the church met 
and voted : ' To give Mr. Timothy M. Cooley a 
call to settle with us as our gospel minister.' 

That the church after so many years of con- 
troversy, should unite harmoniously in any one, 
and especially in one of their own sons, seemed 
most improbable. And that the Pastor elect 
should consent to become the teacher of father 
and mother, and grand-parents, and the venerable 
fathers in the church, and in the town, was 
equally improbable. In that day the law of 
Moses was in full force and virtue : 'Thou shalt 



56 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

rise up before the hoary head, and honor the 
face of the old man, I am the Lord.' 

An urgent and unanimous call from another 
respectable and highly intelligent people, in- 
creased the perplexity.* Jan. 1, 1790, a reply 
to the call was presented, closing in the following 
manner : 

' My relation to this church is peculiarly 
intimate ; Having obtained your charity so far, 
even in my childhood, as to be received into 
your fellowship and communion. 

You have watched over my conduct during 
that season of life, in which we are most exposed 
to wander. This lays me under great obligation 
to you. Confiding in your friendship I accept 
of your invitation, reposing an humble confidence 
in him who has promised to be with his apostles 
always, even unto the end of the world, Amen !' 

On the 3d day of Feb. 1798, while standing 
in this memorable pulpit, I was solemnly conse- 
crated to the pastoral office, by prayer and the 

* * At a town meeting legally warned and holden at Salisbury (by 
adjournment) on the 30th day of October, A. D. 1795, a vote was 
called for, (after considerable discussion, and mutual deliberation) to 
see whether we will give Mr. Timothy M. Cooley a call to settle in 
this town, in the work of the gospel ministry. Voted, unanimously 
in the affirmative. Voted, that we will give to the said Mr. Cooley 
the sum of £200 lawful money, as settlement. Voted, that we will 
give the said Mr. Cooley the sum of one hundred pounds lawful 
money, annually, as salary, during the time he shall perform the 
functions of a gospel minister with us. Voted, that. Captain Milo 
Lee, Captain Nathaniel Freeman, and John Whittlesey, Esq., be a 
committee to wait on the said Mr. Cooley, with the doings of the 
meeting. Asa Hutchinson, Town Clerk. 



G U A N V I L I, E JUBILEE. 57 

imposition of the hands of the presbytery, by my 
then fathers in the ministry, all of whom, with 
one exception, 1 have long since, one after another, 
finished their course and gone the way of all the 
earth. Rev. Joseph Badger led in the introduc- 
tory prayer. Rev. Charles Backus D. D. preached 
the sermon. 2 Rev. Aaron Church offered the 
ordaining prayer. Rev. Joseph Lathrop, D. D., 
gave the charge. Rev. Bezaleel Howard, D. D. 
gave the right hand of fellowship, and Rev. 
Nathaniel Gaylord offered the concluding prayer. 

The parish was small, comprising 877 souls; 
438 males and 439 females, including many 
belonging to the Baptist church and society. 

By a generous effort a fund was immediately 
raised for the support of the gospel. 

Hon. Oliver Phelps made a liberal present of 
500 dollars, to the Parish; the residue was 
contributed by Eighty-one persons, each one 
giving from one hundred pounds down to the 
widow's mite, according to their several ability ; 
and thus by a freewill offering, and with great 
unanimity, they taxed themselves in due propor- 
tion, for the support of the ministry. The effect 
was good for many years. 

In the commencement of my ministry, I took 
this for my motto : ' Feed my lambs.' 

1 Rev. Joseph Badger. 

2 Froin Romans 1, ix. 



58 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

For several years, instruction was given to 
children at appointed seasons, in the intermission 
on the Sabbath. I find the following record : 

' Nov. 27, 179S, children were instructed in the 
Assembly's catechism. Present, 69 males, 69 
females.' 

It is but too common, at this day, to cast contempt 
upon this excellent summary of Christian doctrine. 
I feel no sympathy with this course. I glory in 
these truths as the foundation of all our hopes, 
and all our comforts ; and I can cordially recom- 
mend this catechism to every Christian family. 
I hail it as an omen of a better day, that the 
' Assembly's shorter catechism ' is resuming its 
place in Sabbath school and family instruction. 

There is a chapter in our history, which my 
own feelings might prompt me to pass over in 
silence, but a regard to truth and duty forbid the 
omission. 

Thanksgiving day, in the primitive days of 
New England, was a religious festival, most 
sacredly observed. Later years have perverted 
the hallowed season to vain mirth, and intemper- 
ate revelry. In 1797, Thanksgiving ball came 
on here, and it was a season which had been 
long and anxiously anticipated ; and there was 
an unusual assemblage of the young, of all 
conditions. One heavenly minded father had 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 59 

said to his son at parting: ' You may go, but I 
shall pray for you all the while.' The sound of 
the violin and the cheerful faces of all present, 
enraptured every heart. But the movements of 
the dance had not continued long, when ' death 
with his pale horse entered the chamber and hell 
followed after him/ The chief manager of the 
ceremonies was attacked with mortal disease 
and carried out of the assembly. Still, the 
dance went on ; but a few hasty moments passed 
before the young man who left home with his 
pious father's warning sounding in his ear, was 
attacked in the same manner and carried out in 
the agonies of remorse, as well as distressing 
pain. An attempt was made by some of the 
stout hearted, to stifle the fearful emotions, and 
proceed, but the amusement was scarcely re- 
sumed, when a young lady was taken dangerously 
ill, and carried home. It now seemed like 
Belshazzar ; s hall when ' a man's hand came forth 
and wrote upon the plaster of the wall of the 
King's palace.' 

The most stout hearted sat down, and the 
music stopped. Said a young lady, a favorite of 
the company, ' we could dance no longer.' Some 
proposed singing, but the hand of the Almighty 
had turned their mirth into the deepest sadness. 
At breaking up and separating, as if judgment 



GO GR A NVILLli JUBILEE. 

still pursued them, one young man fell as he 
mounted his horse, and had his arm broken. 
The young man who left home with his father's 
faithful warning, was carried back the next day, 
and was met at the door, by his father with a 
smile of forgiving kindness. 

The young lady was still more dangerously 
ill. Once and again I was myself called in to 
see her breathe her last. The person is present 
here, who commenced making her funeral dress. 
The chief manager was carried home to die! 
He survived but ten days, with his mind filled 
with fearful forebodings, and his body with deadly 
pain. When told by his anxious mother that he 
must die, he cried in the agony of deepest 
despair, 'O mother! mother! don't let me die; 
I cannot die, I am unprepared.' 

Thus died the gay, the youthful, the reckless 
John Sweatman, leaving fearful apprehensions, 
as to what became of his soul. 

The impressions made upon many of the youth 
at the chamber of mirth, at the death bed, and 
at the funeral services, never wore off. This 
was the end of the giddy recreation of the ball 
chamber, with that entire generation ; and for the 
greatest part of half a century, the most intelli- 
gent and pious among us, of all ages, have 
discountenanced such vanities. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 61 

Early the next year, a revival of religion 
commenced. Professing Christians were much 
awakened and breathed out their earnest desires 
for a revival. Christian parents were very 
anxious for their children, and many like Simeon, 
were waiting for c the consolation of Israel.' 

On the second Sabbath in June, a very plain 
sermon was preached from Ezekiel 37, iii. which 
was blessed to the awakening of a number of 
the impenitent. The work of God's Holy Spirit 
which had been many days concealed, now burst 
forth. The glorious work spread with surprising 
rapidity through the place. Few whether old or 
young remained unaffected. It was evidently 
the work of God's holy spirit. No extraordinary 
means or measures were employed, and nearly 
all the labor was performed by myself, with what 
aid I could find within my own parish. 

The height of the work was in the midst of the 
ingathering of harvest, and yet meetings on a week 
day were crowded and still as the burying ground. 

The doctrines inculcated were substantially 
those of the great Edwards, and special caution 
was used to guard the subjects from false and 
delusive hopes. The work of God's Spirit was 
remarkably free from enthusiasm and confusion. 
There were no instances of very great distress 
or outcries, or enthusiastic rants of joy. 
6 



G2 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

As the happy results of this outpouring of the 
Holy Spirit, the church, was doubled in numbers. 
The Bible was more loved and studied. Family 
prayer revived ; the religious instruction of 
children promoted ; the sanctuary crowded, and 
the distinguishing doctrines of the gospel more 
studied and loved. 

Jan. 3, 1802, the church and congregation 
with but one dissenting voice, signified by rising, 
their engagement to promote Home Missions. 
Timothy Rose was appointed delegate to a con- 
vention at Northampton to ratify a constitution 
for the Hampshire Missionary Society. This 
was for home missions. 

Nor has there been less interest in the cause 
of Foreign Missions. In June 1815 the church 
gave their sanction to ' the monthly concert of 
prayer.' A Female Benevolent Society has been 
in operation for nearly forty years. 

In 1812, my Bible Class, which has existed 
thirty-three years, was organized, and enrolled. 
Terms of admission, recital memoriter of the 
Assembles shorter catechism and a perusal of the 
whole Bible in course. On admission, each one 
received a Bible with this inscription, ' Read the 
Scriptures daily.' 

A library was furnished comprising the writ- 
ings of Edwards, Proudfit, Lathrop, Baxter, 



GRANVILLE JUBILEK. 63 

Silliman, Rollin, and kindred authors. The 
readers enrolled their names on the blank leaves. 

The Library, long since, was worn, and scat- 
tered and lost ; but the effects of the books upon 
the readers were more valuable than their weight 
in the purest gold. 

In 1816, God was pleased to pour out his spirit, 
and as many as seventy were hopefully born again, 
and principally members of the Bible class. 

The time had been when this church was but 
a remnant, and only a k\v aged persons, with 
their whitening locks, gathered around the sacra- 
mental Board, but now as the precious fruits of 
God's grace, we might see three generations, the 
aged pilgrim of ninety years, the middle aged, 
and children of eleven or twelve coming up with us 
to the Lord's supper. 

On New Year's eve, 1823, the classical school 
convened to listen to an oration from one of their 
number by previous appointment. Unexpectedly 
to the pupils, the closing part of the address was 
so tenderly impressive that nearly all were in tears, 
and the inquiry was made with deep impression, 
What shall I do to be saved ? 

The work spread into the village, and as many 
as thirty, in the judgment of charity, passed from 
death unto life. The orator of the evening be- 
came hopefully pious, and was preparing for the 



64 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

ministry, when amidst brightening prospects, he 
sunk into an untimely grave. 

The members of the Bible class, in remem- 
brance of the home of their youth, contributed 
to the dressing of the pulpit, and purchasing the 
organ. And three of the number have recently 
sent to the church, communion furniture, with 
suitable engravings. 

In 1828, the grand era of the Temperance 
Reformation commenced ; the subject was pre- 
sented from this pulpit, with unqualified plainness. 
Soon after, this church appointed a committee to 
devise means to promote temperance. As the 
cause was declining, the youth in a single district 
in 1831, united in a most efficient Temperance 
Society, holding stated meetings, and sustaining 
the noble cause by animated and convincing dis- 
cussions. The Lord smiled upon these juvenile 
efforts, and poured out his holy spirit upon the 
Youth's Temperance Society, and as fruits of the 
revival, one has entered the ministry, and several 
are officers or pillars in the church. 

Granville has raised up and sent forth into the 
great harvest field eighteen 1 accredited ministers 



1 Lemuel Haynes, Timothy M. Cooley, Silas Root, Gurdon Hall, 
Truman Baldwin, John Seward, Harvey Coe, Alvin Coe, Seth M. 
Leavenworth, Roger C. Hatch, Benson Baldwin, Charles S. Robinson, 
Joseph J. Foot, D. D. George Foot, Augustus Pomeroy, David B. Coe, 
John Territt, David L. Coe. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. DO 

of the gospel. They have been working men. 
Several of them have sunk down and died in their 
master's service. As far as I know, not a blem- 
ish rests upon the moral or ministerial character 
of one of the number. Some of them have taken 
rank among the first in their profession, for great 
excellence and moral worth. We have also rais- 
ed up for the healing art as many as twenty well 
educated physicians. 1 Some of them stand at 
the head of their profession ; and all, as far as I 
know, are men of fair reputation, and fair stand- 
ing. Six of the ministers and nine physicians, 
have closed their earthly labors. 

We have dismissed six of our deacons and rec- 
commended them affectionately to the fellowship 
of other churches. 

Many of our sons and daughters, the stay of 
their time worn fathers and mothers, the spirit of 
adventure has borne far away from us, and dis- 
persed through the land. 

Some of our lamented sons have sickened and 
died in the West and the South/ No kind mo- 



1 George W. Sanfbrd, John A. Stiles, Samuel O. Parsons, Lyman 
N. Baldwin, Henry Pratt, Chauncey B. Fowler, Alfred Belden, Henry 
K. Spelman, Ruf'us Harvey, Esq., Rowland P. Cooley, Luther Pratt, 
Vincent Holcombe Esq., John B. Cooley, Zebina Smith, Jesse Smith, 
Samuel B. Barlow, Phineas R. Cooley, Luther Spelman, William 
Webster. 

2 Cooley Spelman, William Andrews, Timothy C. Tibbals, Phineas 
R. Cooley, Henry Hubbard, Elea/.ar Strong, Oliver C. Dickinson, Orion 
West, Nathaniel C. Marvin. 



66 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

ther or father watched their dying pillow. No 
mourner visits their lonely graves. 

1 Lamented youth ! 
By foreign hands your dying eyes Were closed, 
By foreign hands your decent limbs composed, 
By foreign hands your humble graves adorned, 
By strangers honored and by strangers mourned.' 

May 29, 1805, a church of twenty-four mem- 
bers was organized, and deacons chosen accord- 
ing to gospel order, with reference to founding a 
colony in the centre of Ohio. 

This was a great loss to us. We could spare 
our young ministers and young physicians, and 
even our deacons, and supply their places by 
others. But when the strength and beauty of the 
church and parish were demanded, the loss was 
irreparable. But as the hand of God was in it, 
we said to them : ' Go and we will pray for you.' 

Early next autumn, amidst prayers and tears 
and heart breakings, they took leave, expecting 
that the next meeting would be in our father's 
kingdom. Like Israel in the desert, no steam- 
boat nor rail car aided their march. In forty-six 
days they reached their destined home, an unbro- 
ken wilderness, and several united in cutting down 
the first tree. They were 176 in number, 52 of 
whom were heads of families. Says Rev. Mr. 
Little, their present pastor, ' The emigrants ac- 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 67 

cording to the commandment, first attended to 
the things of the kingdom of God. They first 
organized the church before they set out on their 
journey. The first business on their arrival was 
to hear a sermon. The preacher only waited for 
them to release the cattle from the wagons. 

Theirs* tree cut, on the town plat, was that 
by which public worship was held on the Sabbath. 
The first Sabbath, though the 16th of cold No- 
vember, was honored by a forenoon and afternoon 
service, under the canopy of heaven. The first 
cabin built after their arrival was the meeting- 
house for several succeeding Sabbaths.' Thus 
they begun right. 

This company left us at the time of our great- 
est prosperity as a church. We had just enjoyed 
a season of refreshment from the Lord, in which 
these beloved brethren shared abundantly. The 
emigrants had borne the heat and burden of the 
day, in raising the fund and building this meeting- 
house. They could carry neither the meeting- 
house nor the fund with them. They made 
request for the minister, but in this were denied. 
The Lord however, sent them a pastor ' after his 
own heart,' and blessed his labors. 

This lovely daughter of ours, has outgrown 
the mother church. They number eight hundred 
and eighty admissions. Says the pastor, Rev. 



68 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

Jacob Little : ' I ought perhaps to say, that my 
people have built mostly by their own means, two 
Academies, costing $20,000, and have given as 
much as $10,000 more within a few years, to 
other benevolent objects.' 

The good name of this lovely daughter of ours 
has crossed the Atlantic Ocean, and her generous 
deeds have been celebrated in England and Scot- 
land. What is infinitely more honorable, ' her 
prayers and her alms have gone up for a memorial 
before God ' in heaven. 

We rejoice in her well earned reputation. For 
my brethren and companions sake, I will say, 
1 peace be within thee !' 

This town has not been passed by in respect to 
those heavenly visitations, styled revivals of re- 
ligion. I have already made allusions to this 
subject. 

In the past half century, the several congrega- 
tional churches in Granville have been blessed 
with as many as twenty, what the great Stoddard 
called harvest seasons. 

1st, in 1798-9, in East Granville, admissions 51. 

2d, in 1803, in Middle Granville, under Rev. 
Mr. Baker, 42. 

3d, in 1806, West Granville, Rev. Mr. Harrison, 
36 ; Gurdon Hall was among the subjects. 

4th, in 1810, East Granville, 15 ; a child twelve 
years old died in triumph. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 69 

5th, 1815, West Granville, Rev. Mr. Harrison, 
34. 

6th, 1816, Middle Granville ; a surprising work 
under Mr. Baker, 60 ; several entered the minis- 
try. 

7th, 1816-17, East Granville, especially in the 
Bible class, 61. 

8th, 1823, East Granville, commenced on the 
evening of New Years day, in connexion with 
a Literary performance in the classical school, 
24. 

10th, 1824-5, Middle Granville, Mr. Baker, 12. 

11th, 1826, East Granville 5 limited, 13. 

12th, 1829-30, East Granville, 30. 

13th, 1830-31, East Granville, 18. 

14th, 1830-31, West Granville, Rev. Mr. North- 
rop, 30. 

15th, 1835, East Granville, 27. 

16th, 1837, Middle Granville, 34. 

17th, 1841, Middle Granville, Rev. Mr. Foote. 
19. 

18th, 1843, East Granville, limited to the Bible 
class. 

19th, 1844, West Granville, Rev. Mr. Sander- 
son, 12. 

20th, 1844, East Granville, 12. 

Our daughter church in Granville, Ohio, has 
been favored with ten revivals. 








GRANVILLE 


1st 


occurred 

Harris, 


in 


1808 


2d 


- 


- 




1818 


3d 


- 


- 




1822 


4th 


- 


- 




1828 


5th 


- 


- 




1831 


6th 


- 


- 




1832 


7th 


- 


- 




1835 


8th 


- 


- 




1837 


9th 


- 


- 




1840 


10th 


- 


- 




1842 



under Rev. Timothy 
40. 
21. 
53. 

84. 

116. 

24. 

28. 
82. 
28. 
44. 

It gives me happiness to add that the Baptist 
church in this place has been refreshed and 
enlarged by revivals of religion. And I may 
add, our Methodist brethren have been blessed 
with revivals. 

It has been my happiness to have a personal 
knowledge of the several seasons of revivals, 
within the bounds of this town. Prayer, and the 
plain truths of God's word, have been the means 
which God has owned and blessed. 

The four pulpits in this place, have presented 
with plainness, the doctrines of grace, keeping 
back nothing which is profitable. 

In these twenty seasons of God's visitation, 
there has been neither the fire, nor the earth- 
quake, nor the strong wind which rent the moun- 
tains, but ' the still small voice ' which caused 
Elijah to wrap his face in his mantle. 



6 R A H V I L L I JUBILEE. 71 

Seasons of revival have uniformly left our 
churches in a state of quietude and great harmo- 
ny, and we cannot but regard them as ' years of 
the right hand of the Almighty.' 

The number of members in this church, when 
I took the oversight of it, was fifty-nine. 1 Twenty- 
four males and thirty-five females. Admission 
by examination 333. The present number is 
133 ; 41 males and 92 females. 

The following are the names of those who 
have been deacons in this church. 

Justus Rose, chosen Feb. 3, 1757, died 1781. 
Luke Hitchcock, Sept. 20, 1758, died 1775, at 
New Lebanon, returning from the army. Sam- 
uel Coe, Nov. 15, 1759. Ephraim Howe, 1791, 
died march 24, 1806. Isaac Bartlett, April 26, 
1793, Dec. 26, 1817. William Cooley, April 
18, 1793, April 14, 1825. Timothy Rose, Jan. 
3, 1795; moved away. James Coe, Nov. 3, 
1806, moved away, died Aug. 1845. Festus 
Spelman, July 1, 1807; moved away, died Oct. 
11,1818. Oliver Coe, May 18, 1815; moved 
away; died Jan. 16, 1840. Levi Cooley, April 
31, 1819 ; moved away. William Seymour, Aug. 
30, 1832. Leander Strickland, April 17, 1833. 
Gideon D. Seymour, moved away and deceased. 

1 By :i rule in this church, members from other churches, as well 
us from the world, have been admitted by examination, till recently. 



72 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

On this deeply interesting day, I must bring 
my thank-offering to the altar. 

Truly God' has shown me his goodness all my 
past days. If he has given me a cup of deep 
affliction, it has been mingled with kindness. 

At the age of five years, when my revered 
father buried two of his children, in a single 
week, he noticed a burial place for a third, which 
he expected me soon to occupy. After hope- 
less weeks, God raised me up, and I have not 
been confined to my room a day for 68 years. 
But I must not glory in my health ; it may fail 
in an hour. Visitations of sickness, deeply 
distressing, and long protracted, have been felt 
in my numerous family ; and for six long years, 
our lamp was never extinguished through the 
night. Even when death has taken our dear 
ones in the bloom of their youth, or in the 
midst of brightening prosperity, we have been 
cheered with triumphant hopes that our loss was 
their unspeakable gain. 

In review of my long ministry of half a century, 
I have reason for deep lamentation. 

In every thing 1 have come short. I have 
been with you in weakness, in fear, and in much 
trembling. Through the goodness of God, I 
have been sustained here. ' I ne'er have changed 
nor wished to change my place.' I have met 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 73 

you at every communion season, six times in a 
year, with the exception of four and a half 
months, when on a mission to the west, and three 
months on a pastoral visit to our brethren in 
Granville, Ohio. 

With few exceptions, I have supplied this 
pulpit on the Sabbath. Five times, I have by 
previous appointment, performed a visitation of 
the entire parish, making a record of the name 
and age of each individual ; conversing and 
praying with parents and children. 

In addition to weekly and district meetings, 
for prayer and preaching, I have attended as 
many as 1400 Bible Class lessons, for the benefit 
of youth. In seasons of revival, meetings have 
been multiplied, as the exigency required. 

Besides the supervision of common schools as 
town committee 48 years, and of the higher 
Institutions of learning the greatest part of that 
time; as many as eight hundred pupils have 
received instruction from my lips, preparatory 
for college, and for business, sixty of whom have 
entered the ministry. 

Besides meetings of Association, and County 

Benevolent Societies, I have attended sixty 

ecclesiastical councils. 1 have solemnized two 

hundred and forty-four marriages, attended about 

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five hundred funerals and usually preached a ser- 
mon on the occasion. 

In these diversified opportunities, to form the 
undying mind of my fellow beings, I ought to 
have done much. No work can be more affect- 
ingly responsible. 

In view of my deficiencies I am filled with 
shame and blushing. In view of what God has 
wrought among us, especially in these ten revi- 
vals of religion, I must exclaim, ' Not unto us, 
O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give 
glory for thy mercy and thy truth's sake.' 

The year of my ordination, the burial ground 
was not broken. So long an armistice with the 
king of terrors at any other time, has not been 
known here for ninety years. 

In fifty years, six hundred, nearly three-fourths 
of the entire population of the parish, have been 
numbered with the dead. 

In 1812, the spotted fever prevailed, which 
was fatal in nearly every instance. 

Deaths that year, 26. 

In 1813, putrid fever proved mortal to many in 
the meridian of life. Deaths, 23. The average 
number is 12 in a single year. One in twenty 
have reached the great age of 90 years. 

In comparing the bills of mortality of West- 
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following results : In Monson and Salisbury one in 
67 died annually. In East Granville one in 73, in 
Westfield, which I always regarded as more 
sickly than her neighbors, only one in 80. 

What changes have fifty years produced ! 
How many families have been broken up ! How 
many streets depopulated! I now preach to a 
new congregation. I administer the Lord's Sup- 
per to a new church. It is four years since the 
last member, resident with us was dismissed to 
her rest. 

The last message from her sainted lips, was a 
request, that the next weekly sermon might be at 
her house. The sermon was there, but it was 
her funeral sermon. Who of us has not a father, 
a mother, a husband, a wife, or a child among 
those 600 graves. Scarcely a house remains in 
my parish bounds, which I have not visited, when 
death was at the door, and from which I have 
not accompanied you in the funeral procession. 
I am witness how cheerfully, how triumphantly, 
many of the dear children of God have given up 
their spirits, and with what fearful forebodings 
many impenitent mortals have met their final 
summons. 

In review. How much do we owe to our 
fathers. They cleared the fields which we cul- 
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76 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

(They fought the hard battles of the Indepen- 
dence.) When they established a fund, laid the 
foundation for a permanent ministry, without 
money and without price ; and when they erected 
this goodly house, how often did the remark 
fall upon my ear, ■ we are doing all this for 
our children.' They broke up the fallow ground, 
scattered the seed, that you might reap the 
harvest. They were men of plain manners, 
but noble purpose and generous hearts. I re- 
member them when with silvery locks they set 
before me here, from Sabbath to Sabbath. Ven- 
erable men ! If the spirits of the pious dead 
ever revisit the places they loved on earth, (and 
who would repel so pleasing a thought) are they 
not now with us on a visit of love, viewing their 
sons and daughters with all the zeal of the ' rapt 
seraph that adores and burns.' 

Do we owe much to our fathers ? How much 
more to God ! The same hand which placed the 
sun to enlighten the natural world, placed his 
church here, saying, 'ye are the salt of the earth, 
ye are the light of the world ; out of its bosom 
have streamed those benefits which have blessed 
and beautified its population.' Whatever that is 
pure, and lovely, and of good report within our 
borders, whatever of intelligence and enterprise 
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our neighbors, and formed the character of those 
who have gone abroad from us through the land, 
is to be ascribed to the enlightening, and the 
hallowing influence of the church and of the 
Christian religion. Banish from this place the 
church and the gospel, and the twenty revivals 
of religion, and this beautiful scenery would be 
overspread with a pall of darkness and atheism. 

But I must hasten to a conclusion. 

Having reviewed the past, let us pause a mo- 
ment and look into the dark, unknown future. 
The past half century has been the most extra- 
ordinary portion of time, in some respects, since 
the crucifixion of Christ. 

The half century to come, may be invested 
with even still greater interest. 

Who will be actors, and what will be the 
scenes in the next half century ? Who will 
survive to celebrate the next Jubilee ? These 
everlasting hills and vales will remain. The 
brooks will continue to run. The sun, and stars, 
and moon, will pursue their courses unchanging 
and unchangeable. The fearful northern lights, 
the meteoric showers, and perhaps new signs and 
wonders will be presented to view ; but we shall 
not be here. The pastors and the churches will 
have slept the long sleep. Nothing will remain 
but the tomb stones which record our names. 

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Oh ! may it be written upon them, ♦ these all died 

in the faith.' 

c O glorious hour, O blest abode, 
I shall be near and like my God !' 

Sons and daughters of Granville, resident and 
emigrant, God is good in suffering us to meet 
here to day. Another such day we shall never 
behold. 

My children, / am glad to see you before I 
die. To some of you I must say ' It is the last 
time.' You will hear my voice and ' see my face 
no more.' This ancient pulpit, mine for more 
than half a century, if indeed a tasteful genera- 
tion should refrain from laying rude hands upon 
the ancient structure, will pass to other hands. 

One word of counsel. Act worthy of your 
forefathers, worthy of your privileges. Be Chris- 
tians ! real Christians ! 

Some of you, it is to be feared, are halting 
between two opinions ; undecided whom to serve ; 
crying a little more sleep, a little more slumber, 
a little more folding of the hands to sleep. 

Listen, I beseech you to the voice of a friend 
and not a flatterer. Every thing is at stake. 
Eternity, with all its glorious and fearful retribu- 
tions is suspended upon your present choice. 

The Great God says to each of you, ' My son 
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with an inviting voice, ■ come unto me and I will 
give you rest.' Neglect this, and all is lost. 
Listen to these reasonable admonitions, and 
when the last trumpet shall break up these 
sepulchres, when the earth and the sea shall give 
up the dead that are in them, you will come to 
Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon your 
heads. 



ODE, 

ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SETTLEMENT 
OF REV. T. M. COOLEY. 

BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. 

' Mid the fair vales that bore him, 

The Patriarch and Friend, 
Where still serenely o'er him 

The summer branches bend. 

He, long, salvation's story 

With faithful zeal hath told, 
And to the realms of glory, 

Invited young and old. 

Oh ! gather fondly round him, 

Ye, bright in early bloom, 
To fill their vacant places, 

Who slumber in the tomb. 

Ye, whose unbroken spirits, 

No toils of time have tried, 
Give honors to the hoary head, 

And gather near his side. 

While to the God of Heaven, 
Your thankful prayers ascend, 

Who thus doth to the children spare 
Their sainted father's friend. 



At the close of the morning exercises, it was an- 
nounced by the President of the Day, that a Dinner was 
prepared, to which the whole assembly was respectfully 
invited. 

The Marshals forthwith proceeded to organize this 
great gathering into a procession, and with the accom- 
paniment of the Granville Band of Music, they were 
conducted to the tables in the following order. 

President of the Day. 

Committee of Arrangements. 

Choir of Singers. 

Clergy. 

Emigrants and invited Guests. 

Citizens. 

The tents were erected on a beautiful lawn in the 
vicinity of the church, on the grounds of Mrs. Root, 
who kindly proffered the same for the occasion. 

The tables were arranged, and spread, and loaded,by 
the united efforts of the ladies of East Granville, with 
their characteristic taste and munificence, and a joyous 
company of more than 2,000 persons partook of the 
repast. 



AFTERNOON SERVICES. 

At 4 o'clock the congregation re-assembled in the 
church and participated in the following exercises. 

Sacred Music. 

Prayer by Rev. Mr Robbins. 

Sacred Music. 

Sermon by Rev. Mr. Coe of New York. 

Sacred Music. 



The elements being prepared by the officers of the 
church, for the commemoration of the Lord's Supper, 
a solemn and affecting address was made to a crowded 
assembly of communicants, on presentation of the bread 
by Rev. Mr. Hatch of Warwick, and he was assisted by 
Rev. Mr. Davis of Westfield, who made the following 
remarks at the administration of the cup.' 

My Christian Friends : 

We assembled in the morning to listen to an 
account of the labors of this Servant, and of the 
scenes through which he has passed. We are 
now gathered around this table, to commemorate 
the sufferings and death of the Master. The 
servant has toiled in the field of his labors, fifty 
years ; but the Master whom we serve, the great 
High Priest, ever liveth ; of his years there is 
no end. 

Fifty years is a long time for a man to preach 
the gospel, especially in the same place. Only 
here and there one are indulged with this high 
privilege. The Pastor of this church, is the fifth 
clergyman that has ever done it in Hampden 
County. 

Of the one hundred and twenty-three Pastors 
that have been ordained and installed as Pastors of 
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Baldwin of Palmer, continued their pastoral 
charge fifty years. Williams, of Longmeadow, 
and Lathrop of West Springfield, continued in 
office sixty-six years ; and now we add to this list, 
Cooley, of Granville. 

But while the preaching of the gospel is com- 
mitted to frail and dying men, the master we 
serve, the Saviour, whose death we now com- 
memorate, liveth forever. 

He maketh intercession for us continually, 
before the throne of God. 

This cup is an emblem of that blood that was 
shed for us, and without which there is no 
remission of sin. 

To this we are indebted for the hopes we 
cherish of escaping from hell, and of securing 
a place in heaven. We are here reminded that 
we are sinners, and entirely destitute of any 
personal righteousness. 

Jesus Christ by his sufferings and death, hath 
atoned for sin. We receive him as our atoning 
Saviour, and with penitence of heart, and with 
a purpose to reform from sin, we rely upon him. 
By coming to this table and partaking of these 
elements, we reaffirm our faith in Christ, and 
renew our covenant engagements. Let it be 
seen that we are profited by these communion 
seasons ; that we are more watchful and more 
earnest in our efforts to glorify God. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. «5 

It is a solemn consideration, my friends, that 
we shall never more, together, ' drink of this 
fruit of the vine until that day ' when we drink 
it new with Christ in our Father's kingdom. 

At the close of the communion services, the exercises 
of the day, were concluded by singing Old Hundred by 
the Choir. The assembly was then called to order by 
the President. 

Moved by Rev. Dr. Cooley, and seconded by Rev. 
Mr. Coe, and Voted unanimously, that this Jubilee be 
adjourned to the last Wednesday in August in the year 
of our Lord 1895, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at this 
place. And the President thereupon declared the same 
adjourned accordingly. 

James Coolev, President. 

John Seymour, Secretary. 



At a meeting of the first church of Christ in Gran- 
ville, Mass. Nov. 2, 1845. 

Moved by James Cooley : That whereas three of the 
sons of this church, viz. Rev. David B. Coe, Pastor 
of Allen Street church, New York. Mr. Jesse B. 
Spelman, and Mr. Joseph J. West, Merchants, New 
York City, have presented us a complete and elegant 
set of communion furniture, a reso'ution of thanks be 
adopted and entered upon our records, and that the 
same be published in the transactions of the Jubilee. 
Timothy M. Cooley, Pastor. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 



SECOND DAY. 



Thursday, 28«/j August, 1845. 

The Emigrant visitors and young Ladies and Gen- 
tlemen of Granville, assembled on the green in front of 
the church at 2 o'clock, P. M., and moved under the 
escort of the Granville Band to the tent where the en- 
tertainment of the previous day was prepared. 

The tables were again abundantly furnished by a few 
of the young gentlemen of East Granville, and a bles- 
sing having been implored by Rev. Mr. Coe, of New 
York, about three hundred partook of their bounties. 

At the close of the refreshments and removal of the 
cloth, James Cooley, Esq., President of the Day, called 
for addresses and sentiments. 

Rev. Doct. Cooley arose and addressed the assembly 
as follows : 

Children : 

Granville is a goodly and venerable mother. 

More than a hundred winters have passed over 

her head, and yet she has neither a grey hair 

nor a v/rinkle. She has nourished up a numer- 

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ous family, and counts her children, not by 
units or tens, but by fifties, by hundreds and by 
thousands. No mother could be more affection- 
ate, and few are more faithful and truly pious. 
She begins with her children in their tenderest 
childhood, by producing those salutary impres- 
sions which will tell upon their life for many long 
years to come, and even far beyond Time's narrow 
bounds. I can compare her to no one with 
fitter propriety, than to the time honored mother 
of John Randolph, of Roanoke. Said this 
shrewd and illustrious statesman, ' my mother 
when I was but a little boy, used to put me to 
bed at night, and taking my little hand into her 
own soft, warm hand, she would bid me say, 
Our Father which art in heaven. And it wa3 
this that saved me from being a French Atheist.* 

Our good and kind mother teaches her chil- 
dren to pray. And she gives them a Bible, and 
says to them, ' turn over a leaf in the Bible every 
day.' 

She teaches them to work as well as to pray. 
All her daughters are like Solomon's virtuous 
woman. ' She layeth her hands to the spindle, 
and her hands hold the distaff.' 

Mother Granville looks well to her sons as 
well as her daughters, and scorns to have an 
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from school, through storm and winds, and 
sleet and snow. They are sent to the farm 
house, the shop, or the counting room, to gather 
up every scrap of precious time in some handi- 
craft for future use. She says to them, one and 
all, 

1 Go to the shop, the plow, the hedge or ditch, 

Some honest calling use, no matter which ; 

Be postman, porter, ply the laboring oar. 

Employment keeps the sheriff from the door. 

She selects some of her sons for a liberal 
education for the bar, the pulpit and the healing 
art. Others, daughters as well as sons, she 
sends to the best institutions for learning the art 
of teaching, and sends forth her well qualified 
instructors for the common school, and the 
high school. 

A goodly number of her sons she keeps at 
home, to take care of the old homestead, and 
see that it does not go to decay. But her dwell- 
ing is too strait for them all, and she scatters 
them through the land, wherever business or 
enterprise may invite them. 

When they make their annual visitation, for 
they are all lovers of home, she welcomes them 
with joy and festivities ; and on such occasions, 
she is like Nepthali's ' hind let loose,' l s7iegivet7i 
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When the festive days are passed away, they 
all go back to their toils and cares with a light 
heart. 

If the dreadful miasma of the West and the 
South tinges their fair and blushing faces with a 
sallow and sickly hue, she calls them home and 
with her infallible cure-all mountain air and 
rock water, lights up the glow of health, and 
manly vigor, and sends them back again to their 
far off homes. 

If her children sicken and die, for who is 
there that shall not see death ? she calls together 
her household to mourn and to weep for them. 
And if she has the cheering evidence that they 
died Christians, and all was well with the im- 
mortal part, she wipes away the falling tear, 
saying, ' It is all well ! The Lord gave, the 
Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of 
the Lord !' 

Sons and daughters of Granville, emigrant and 
resident : ' The Lord bless you and keep you. 
The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and 
be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his 
countenance upon you, and give you peace.' 



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REV. WILLIAM CROWELL, 

OF BOSTON, BEING CALLED UPON, OFFERED THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS. 

Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen of 
Granville : 

Most unexpectedly did I hear my name an- 
nounced a few moments ago, as one who was to 
address you. I did not consider myself worthy 
of this distinction, for I have not the honor to be 
one of the children of the venerable mother, 
whose character and deeds have just been so 
graphically and so truly described by your excel- 
lent Pastor. Our parentage and birth-place you 
know, are among those circumstances of our 
lives, not left to our choice. Had I been allowed 
to select a place of my own nativity, I might have 
chosen Granville, and so have inherited the priv- 
lege and the honor which you now enjoy, of 
calling her my mother. But as I could not do 
that, I have done the next best thing, the best 
in my power ; I have made her my mother-in-law, 
and although I have never been adopted into her 
family, yet two of my children have the honor of 
calling her mother. So you perceive I have 
good reasons for feeling a deep interest in every 
thing which concerns the prosperity and the 
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has described her, the mother of a numerous, 
intelligent and useful family. Her children are 
found in every part of our land, in city and in 
country, filling and adorning all the walks of 
professional and private life. And although I did 
not arrive in season to hear the historical discourse 
delivered yesterday by one so long and so closely 
identified with her history, yet I am not ignorant 
of the noble eminence which Granville has long 
held among her sister towns, for the attention 
which she has given to the education of the 
young, and for the intelligence of her people. 
For this eminence you are in no small degree 
indebted to the labors and counsels of your ven- 
erable Pastor, whom I can never think of, nor 
mention but with high respect, for his long and 
faithful services, both as a Christian minister, 
and as a teacher of youth, under whose watchful 
care and vigorous instructions, so many of you 
have been trained up for happiness in this life, 
and to seek for enduring happiness beyond the 
grave. 

Let me assure you, therefore, that you all have 
great cause to be thankful, that you have enjoyed 
the careful nursing, the faithful counsels, and the 
healthful training of this venerable mother. 
Your Pastor has told you that among her virtuous 
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This is no small compliment to her maternal 
faithfulness and wisdom. It is greatly to her 
praise that she has not left her children, like 
many in our large towns and cities to run about 
the streets in the evening. By this means she 
has given them the healthy, robust frames, the 
fine forms and blooming cheeks, which I see 
before me. They have inhaled her pure air, they 
have bounded up her steep hill sides, they have 
been nourished by her plain, wholesome fare, till 
they have become active and strong. She not 
only puts them early to bed, but teaches them to 
rise early in the morning. It was once given as 
a reason why the mountain boys grew so tall, that 
they had been so long accustomed to stretch 
themselves up to look over the hills to see whether 
the sun was about to rise ! This may be the 
reason why so many of the young men here are 
head and shoulders above the puny race bred up 
in our cities. But for this early stretching, I 
myself, for I also was born and bred upon the 
mountains, might not have reached over five feet 
six, thus reducing my stature a full half foot, a 
diminution which I could ill afford to suffer. 

You are all under great obligations to this 
mother, for the salutary habits which she has 
taught you, in short, for your entire physical, 
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me say, especially to the large number of youth 
present, that a mountain town like this, is the 
very best place the world affords, in which to 
receive your early education, in whatever depart- 
ment of the business of life you are afterwards 
to be placed. Habits of stirring diligence, 
energy and perseverance, are best acquired among 
the scenery and employments which surround us 
here. You may learn how to conquer sloth, to 
surmount difficulties, cultivate strength of pur- 
pose for the struggles of after life, to foster true 
independence of soul while wielding the hoe, the 
axe and the scythe. 

Here in the country, are the right difficulties 
to stir the hearts of the young, and the very best 
incitements to overcome them. 

The best foundation which can be laid for a 
good education, that which gives the surest 
guaranty of success in life, is the will to set 
about and accomplish a task ; the power to con- 
fine our unwilling selves to steady application, to 
energetic, self-denying labor. Here is the place 
to lay this foundation. If you are to be the 
architects of your own fortunes, this must be the 
corner stone. 

If you commence here to act the diligent, the 
manly, the virtuous, the generous and noble part, 
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part in any other sphere in which you may be 
called to move. 

Here, surrounded by this beautiful, grand, and 
ever varying mountain scenery, is the best place 
to educate the mind. The mind never was, nor 
ever can be developed and fashioned by books 
and teachers only. These have an important 
part, but one far more so is to be performed by 
companions, by scenery and circumstances. The 
laboratory of the chemist may unfold to you some 
of the mysteries of science, but here we are in 
the wonderful laboratory of nature herself. Here 
her most curious operations are continually going 
on, full of the choicest instruction. Here, before 
your eyes, the tree yearly puts forth its leaves, 
its blossoms and its fruits. You see these curious 
changes as they occur. Perhaps you have not 
valued this privilege as you will, if in future 
years it shall be your lot to be shut up among the 
rattling pavements, the brick sidewalks, the high 
walls, and tiled roofs of a city. We are in dan- 
ger of forgetting how large a part of our most 
valuable knowledge was acquired by early watch- 
ing the operations of nature. Why, children 
confined entirely to a city would scarcely know 
whether cucumbers are made by machinery, or 
eggs and sausages grew on trees, unless the mat- 
ter were explained to them ! Both come from the 
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market, but whether they grew by a process of 
nature, or formed by the contrivances of human 
art, they of their own observation, could not know. 
In fact, the process of nature cannot be explained 
to those who have never witnessed them. They 
must be seen, investigated and long watched, to 
be understood. You will pardon my homely 
illustration, which after all is scarcely an extreme 
supposition, if it serves to place this point in a 
clearer light. 

The operations of nature in the successive 
changes attendant on the seasons, in the laws 
which regulate the production and decay of 
animal and vegetable life, form that basis for the 
successful development of the intellectual powers 
which nothing else can supply. No person is 
thoroughly educated, in the best sense of that 
term, who has not spent much time in the coun- 
try, and watched with an inquiring mind the 
wonderful operations of God, who is there in a 
special sense our Teacher, whose works are 
great, sought out of all them that have pleasure 
therein. 

That this, yea that far more than this is true, 
is manifest, not only from the construction of the 
natural world, and the adaptation of our minds 
to receive pleasure and instruction from its study, 
but the structure of the Bible attests the impor- 



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tance of this truth. The Bible we call the word 
of God, because the very words in which it is 
written were chosen by God himself, who inspir- 
ed the sacred penmen to record them just as they 
are, for our instruction. The style thereof, and 
the imagery, the figurative language, the pictures 
of scenery, are all such as are best adapted to 
please, to strengthen, to instruct the universal 
mind of man. They were all selected by Him 
who created the mind, and who perfectly under- 
stands its powers. But how full is the Bible of 
illustrations, figures of speech, and parables, 
drawn from the scenery and occupations of the 
country ! The lofty mountain crowned with 
majestic cedars, the rich valley waving with 
corn, the green pastures, the ever flowing river, 
the trees, the flowers, the habits of the gentle 
sheep, contrasted with the wild goat bounding 
over its chosen crags, the wild ass snuffing up 
the wind at his pleasure, and the patient ox, 
bowing his neck to the yoke. These, with sim- 
ilar objects and scenes peculiar to the country, 
form no small part of the matter for illustration 
with which the scriptures so much abound. Thus 
the works of God are made to illustrate His word, 
that man may know it is the highest dignity and 
happiness of his nature to study them together. 
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and beauty of those illustrations, we must be well 
acquainted with the scenery of the country. 

Let me urge you, then, to prize highly the 
place of your birth. Let me remind the youth 
of Granville that they have a great work to do, 
to carry on what their sires have so nobly begun. 
Much has already been done here in the cause 
of education, but you can do, you ought to do, 
much more. You ought to have the best schools, 
which shall send forth the best minds to bless 
the world. 

May you never tarnish the bright fame of your 
fathers, now so conspicuously reflected back 
from that flourishing and famous town in the 
West, which derived its foundation, its institu- 
tions, and its name from this. It was but yester- 
day I heard a Professor of the College in 
Granville, Ohio, an entire stranger of this place, 
expressing his deep regret, that he could not 
find time to make a pilgrimage hither, to pay 
his respects to this town, as the honored mother 
of that honored daughter. Your fathers had an 
honorable name to gain, and they have won it 
well. You have that name to keep. Let it not 
fail to go down with increasing lustre, to the 
latest posterity. Prize highly your native hills, 
because God has made them a highly favored 
place for training up men for the realities of life, 
and the pure bliss of Heaven. 



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ADDRESS OF REV. DAVID B. COE, 

I'ASTOR OF ALLEN STREET CHURCH, NEW YORK. 

The festivities of the occasion which has 
called us together are now drawing to a close. 
It has been an occasion, as we shall all testify, 
of peculiar and delightful interest. We who 
have been wanderers from our native spot, have 
revisited the scenes of our early days, greeted 
those who survive of our early friends, and 
walked amid the graves, and read the memorials 
there, of those who have finished their earthly 
course. 

We have listened to the record of God's merci- 
ful dealings with our venerable, spiritual Father, 
and the people for whom he has so long labored 
in the ministry. 

We are now about to separate to our different 
and distant homes, and our next meeting will be 
on the final day, and around the throne of Judg- 
ment. 

But to recount the mercies of God to us, and 
to the people of our native town, and revive the 
friendships of our youth amid these familiar 
scenes, are not the ultimate ends of our assem- 
bling. 

We must not fail to inquire as we close these 

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exercises, what are the impressions which it 
becomes us to carry away from this place, and 
this occasion. And I am sure that none of us 
can resist the conviction, which all that we have 
seen, and heard, and felt, has been fitted to pro- 
duce ; that upon us rests peculiar obligations. 

We are all under high obligations to the place 
which gave us birth. We have been told that 
this mother of ours has won an excellent reputa- 
tion ; that she has brought forth, and nurtured 
many distinguished sons, and virtuous and useful 
daughters ; that they are to be found in all parts 
of our country, and engaged in all departments 
of useful and honorable enterprise. 

This reputation of our mother Granville, is, to 
some extent in our keeping, and we are responsible 
for its preservation. We are the representatives 
of our native town, in all those communities 
where we are known ; and let us see to it, that 
her fair fame is not tarnished in our hands. Let 
it not be to their disgrace when we boast of our 
pious puritan ancestry, and of our nurture in the 
wholesome, moral atmosphere, and bracing air 
of these granite hills. Let us show the effect of 
such a paternity, and such a culture by our 
steadfast adhesion to the pure principles which 
our fathers taught us, and by our earnest devotion 
to the cause for which they suffered so many 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 103 

hardships and perils. Then our mother will not 
blush to own us as her offspring ; and when our 
children and children's children shall assemble on 
this spot, in 1895, they will rejoice, as we do now, 
in the good character of their native town, and in 
the heritage of a spotless example, bequeathed to 
them by their fathers. 

We are reminded, by the present occasion, of 
our great indebtedness to our former Pastor. 

In the multitude of emotions excited by this 
festival, a prominent one, I am sure, has been 
that of gratitude to him who was the spiritual 
guide of our childhood and youth. For we 
must be sensible that to him, under God, we owe 
in no small measure, whatever of temporal and 
spiritual prosperity this community has enjoyed, 
and whatever of good, we as individuals have 
been enabled to accomplish in the world. Yet 
none of us, probably, are fully aware of the 
extent of this indebtedness. 

We should remember that nearly all of us 
heard from his lips, those words of truth and life 
which have been the power of God to our salva- 
tion ; and if we shall ever be admitted to the 
mansions of the redeemed above, we shall be 
stars in his crown of rejoicing. Many of us 
moreover, are of that eight hundred, whose 



104 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

minds were early trained in his study, and under 
his tuition. 

Others still received our first impulse in the 
pursuit of knowledge, from the perusal of that 
precious library which he founded and sustained 
for so many years. I may testify for one, at 
least. I shall ever attribute to that source, my 
earliest thirst for intellectual pursuits; and 
whatever of happiness to myself and of good to 
others, has resulted from them, may I, may we 
all never cease to remember with deep gratitude 
these beneficent labors of our venerable Pastor. 

And what is the requital that we owe him 1 
Not our silver and our gold, not our grateful 
encomiums, even. His language on this subject 
has ever been, and doubtless still is, ' I have no 
greater joy than to hear that my children walk in 
truth.' This joy we can afford him. We ought 
to do it. It is base ingratitude not to do it. Let 
us afford him the happiness always to hear, that 
wherever we go, in whatever sphere of life we 
may be placed, we are governing our lives by 
the pure precepts which he has taught us, and 
are diligently serving our generation and our 
God. 

Thus will the evening of his days be cheered 
by the reflection, that in his many spiritual chil- 
dren he is leaving behind him the savor of a holy 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 105 

influence, which shall linger and be diffused in 
blessings upon many when he shall rest from his 
labors. If we would not bring down the grey 
hairs of our spiritual father with sorrow to the 
grave ; but in some degree repay the debt we 
owe him, let us present ourselves as the worthy 
fruits of his spiritual husbandry in this vineyard 
of the Lord. 

But we are reminded to-day, of obligations 
higher than those which we owe to our pastor or 
to our native place. To whom do we owe it 
that we breathed the pure air of these New Eng- 
land hills, and not the malaria of a torrid 
clime ? To whom do we owe it, that the 
school house, the library, the sanctuary, and not 
the bloody forms of pagan worship, were the 
resorts of our childhood 1 To whom do we owe 
it, that our spiritual guide was the true messenger 
of God, pointing us to the narrow path of life, 
and not the priest of some blinding and fatal 
superstition 1 In short, to whom do we owe it, 
that we had our birth and training on one of the 
fairest and brightest spots of creation, and not 
amid the darkness and gloom that brood over so 
much of our earth? 

We owe it to the sovereign pleasure of our 
heavenly Father, the giver of all those peculiar 
blessings in which we this day rejoice. They 



106 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

all therefore call upon us to render to the author 
of them the tribute of grateful hearts and holy 
lives. To that call let us give earnest heed. If 
we fail to heed it, we fail of the principal lesson, 
and lose the chief benefit of this occasion. For 
this is the lesson that has been enforced upon 
our attention, by all that we have seen, and heard, 
and enjoyed, since we came together. It is the 
language of every thing that has reminded us of 
our high and peculiar privileges. It comes to 
us from the mansion where we were born, from 
the green fields where we played in childhood, 
from the school house where we used to study, 
from the familiar tones of yonder bell, that used 
to call us to the house of God, from the graves 
where our pious fathers sleep. Nay, all the 
familiar objects which surround us, endeared by 
so many associations, and reminding us of our 
goodly heritage, call upon us to render our lives 
a thank-offering to God. Here then, under the 
hallowed influence of these scenes, I exhort 
every son and daughter of Granville, to respond 
to these claims by new vows of devotion to his 
cause, and the welfare of our fellow men. Thus 
shall we realize the appropriate effects of this 
occasion, and be enabled to cherish the remem- 
brance of it with pleasure, through our whole 
lives. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 107 

As we are now on the eve of separation, I 
cannot but express, in behalf of the returned 
emigrants, our grateful acknowledgments to our 
friends, the citizens of Granville, for the ap- 
pointment of this festival, and for their kind 
attentions and hospitalities while we have been 
with them. We separate to-day, like drops 
issuing from the same cloud, to pursue their 
separate journeys to the earth. Be it our office, 
like theirs, to spread verdure and gladness around 
us, while we stay on earth ; and having fulfilled 
our mission like them, may we all rise to be 
re-united in our common home in the skies, 



SENTIMENTS. 



By a Visitor. 

Old Granville ! yes, I love thee still, 

Thou art my native home, 
Thy joy so pure can ne'er be found 

Where'er I rest or roam. 

Though pleasure's path and fortune's smiles 

In other climes seem fair, 
The brightest of their hopes and joys, 

Can nought with thee compare . 

By Joseph J. West, of New York. 

My friends, and brother emigrants : allow me 
to propose, 

The memory and prosperity of East Granville, 
our early home ; its venerable and beloved pastor, 
our youthful and constant friend ; and its very 
worthy and esteemed President of this Jubilee, 
who has been constant and untiring in his efforts 
to aid and instruct the youth of this our native 
town, from the time of our early remembrance 
to the present hour. 

By Oliver C. Dickinson, of Randolph, Ohio. 
Mr. President : I give as a sentiment — Mother 



GUANVILLE JUBILEE. 109 

Granville; your mother, my mother; I congratu- 
late her in that great good she secured to her family 
in taking that Elder Son to be the spiritual 
steward of her house. 

And here, Mr. President, I tender my thanks 
for that invitation which was extended to me, to 
return, after an absence of forty years from the 
maternal domain, to participate in this festival, 
this jubilee, marking the periodical time in which 
this son and steward has so long, so faithfully, 
and so acceptably performed the duties of his 
important station. 

With ready hearts we respond to your call. 
We come; we are joyful on this occasion. We 
are satisfied, because we love our mother; (we 
love her in her children) because we love to gaze 
on her hearth-stones, and think of all their asso- 
ciations ; because there is music in the old 
Sabbath bell ; because we are pleased to raise 
our eyes to the same old sanctuary, where we 
were wont to meet, in years gone by ; because 
there the same servant of God still speaks the 
same truths, from the same gospel of Christ, 
which we were wont to hear in our boyhood ; 
because your arms are wide open to welcome us. 

Mr. President, our mother has sent forth many 
sons and daughters through the length and breadth 
of the land, and by the training of that Elder 
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110 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

Son, a large portion of these have gone out to 
be blessings in our country. I hope our good 
mother will scrutinize the moral character of her 
emigrating children, and not give them a diploma 
until developments of the right kind are distinctly 
made. The great Western Valley is a dangerous 
place for the young to form character. I 
speak what I know, for certain it is she let me 
' slope off' before the right principle was im- 
planted, or, perhaps I should say, before it 
germinated ; and if I escaped the ruin to which 
I was exposed, the ' smell of Jire is upon me.' 

My young brothers and sisters who yet gather 
around the parental hearth, a word to you. 

When you have finished your moral education, 
I invite you to come to the great West and do 
good; but do not come until you have character 
and decision ; and may your patriarchal, spiritual 
guide live to train many more for usefulness here 
and glory hereafter, and be made happy in the 
prospect that an ever-increasing influence for 
good will go forth from him, an influence which 
shall not be stayed when he shall be gathered to 
his fathers. 

By Timothy C. Cooley, of Indiana. 

The glorious hills of old Granville : as lofty as 
our aspirations ; steadfast as our affections. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. Ill 

By P. L. Buell. 

The emigrants from Granville, who attend the 
Jubilee : by their presence with us on this occa- 
sion, they have manifested strong attachment for 
the place of their nativity, their relatives and 
friends, and for him whom many of them own as 
their spiritual father. 

By John Seymour. 

Our beloved Pastor : as he has long been 
spared to us, and we trust has been the means of 
doing much good, may his last days be bright 
and peaceful as the rays of the setting sun which 
are now falling upon us. 

By George W. Rose. 

Our Pastor, like the sun, is setting ; he will 
rise again in glory. 

By Elijah C. Spelman. 

Our Fathers : the glory of the half century, 
though absent from this body are not forgotten, 
May we, if like them, not be forgotten in 1895. 

By Jonathan B. Bancroft. 

Our Pastor, the favorite son of mother 
Granville, our elder brother whom we love. Al- 
though his sun has past its meridian, long may 
it shine to guide us in the paths of virtue and 



JJ2 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

truth, and to greet the returning emigrant with 
his cordial welcome and friendly smile so pecu- 
liar to himself. And when it must set, may it 
not go down behind the darkened west, but like 
the day star, before the rising sun, melt away 
into the light of Heaven. 

By Rufus H. Barlow. 

The emigrants from this place, and their 
descendants ; may they continue to be an honor 
to their mother Granville. 

By Andrew Hubbard, of Springfield. 

Mr. President : I am proud of being a son of 
so large and noble a family as has been exhibited 
at this Jubilee Festival, and I have taken great 
pleasure in participating in its joys. And on 
looking around, I notice what is characteristic on 
the hills of old Granville, our time honored moth- 
er ; a very distinctive appearance of health 
marked on the countenance. And 1 will there- 
fore give you the following sentiment. 

The rosy cheeks of the fair daughters of this 
venerable mother : May they ever blossom. 

By Ardon Seymour. 

The people ot East Granville; as they have 
long enjoyed the labors of their Pastor, may he 
share largely in their sympathies and affections, 
now when he is old and grey headed. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 113 

By Horatio N. Case, of Granby, Conn. 

The early settlers of Granville ; they need no 
monument to perpetuate their fame, for their 
names are engraved on the hearts of their de- 
scendants, and they will never forget to drop a 
tear to their memory. 

By E. Wright. 

The sons and daughters of Granville ; we 
congratulate them on the occasion of this Jubilee, 
and whether they go abroad or remain at home to 
cultivate and beautify the old homestead, may 
they be ever fanned by the breezes of liberty, 
respected and loved for all the virtues and graces 
that adorn the Christian character. 

By John Barlow, of Alabama. 

Our Mothers ; they forgot not us, may we never 
forget them. 

By Roger S. Moore, of Southwick. 

The late Hon. Isaac Chapman Bates; one of 
Granville's most distinguished sons. Honest in 
every trust, indefatigable in every duty. 

By Vincent Holcombe, Esq. 

Old Granville; may her sons and daughters, 
now scattered through every state and territory 
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114 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

of this wide spread republic, remember, that it 
was among the rocks and rivulets of these cloud 
cap'd hills, that they received their first lesson in 
industry, morality, virtue and religion. May 
they teach them to their children, and may their 
children's children acknowledge it with gratitude 
at the approaching Jubilee in 1895. 

By a Guest. 

Moral knowledge ; the balance wheel of our 
comforts here, and our hopes hereafter. 

By William F. Eno, of Springfield. 

The fair ladies of Granville, the fairest of the 
fair ; may their fare be our fare, and our fare the 
best of fare. 

By Festus S. Barlow, of Southwick. 

The sons of Granville; may we ever cultivate 
sentiments as pure and benevolent as those of her 
fair daughters. 

By Jesse B. Spelman, of New York. 

The Ladies of Granville ; like their ancestor 
mothers, pure in principle, kind hearted, benevo- 
lent, and worthy to be called, ' Mothers in Israel.' 

By Ebenezer Roberts, of Hartford. 

Granville ; as her adopted son, I venerate her. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 115 

By Benjamin Adams 

May the memory of this Jubilee be perpetual- 

By James Cooley. 

The Emigrants from Granville ; a noble prog- 
eny, worthy of their ancestry, and worthy of 
their country ; a blessing upon those that are 
present, a kind remembrance of those that are 
absent. 

By Edwin A. Cooley, of Attica, N. Y. 

Old Granville ; ' Remember thee ? Ay, while 
memory holds a seat in this distracted globe.' 

By Samuel M. Cooley, of New Orleans. 

Our goodly mothers; they have rocked our 
cradles, and we will rock theirs. 






116 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 



By Benjamin Adams. 

Mr. President: I consider this an important 
era in the history of this, my native town ; a 
season of great interest to me, and to us all. 

Although I have been somewhat a wanderer 
from the fold of this mother, I trust I have not 
wholly disregarded her counsels, nor forgotten 
her precepts ; and I return with renewed affection 
to the home of my childhood, and the household 
of my friends. 

It is with no ordinary emotion of satisfaction 
and happiness, that I meet this great concourse 
of kindred and friends on this occasion. And to 
cherish in our hearts a permanent remembrance 
of the scenes of this interesting day, I move a 
resolution that a Monument of Marble be erected 
on, or near this spot, with suitable inscriptions, 
in commemoration of this half century Festival. 

Voted unanimously, that the above resolution 
be adopted. 



GRANVII.I.F, JUBILEE. 

HYMN. 

SUNG BY THE ASSEMBLY. 

Our Country ! ' tis of thee, 
Sweet land of liberty, 

Of thee we sing ; 
Land where our fathers died, 
Land of the pilgrims' pride, 
From every mountain's side, 

Let greetings ring. 

Our native Country ! thee, 
Land of the noble free, 

Thy name we cheer ; 
We love thy rocks and rills, 
Thy woods and rugged hills ; 
Our heart with rapture thrills 

While we are here. 

Let music swell the breeze, 
And ring from all the trees 

The festive sound ; 
This is our Jubilee, 
Our friends once more we see, 

Joy smiles around. 



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118 GRANVILLE JUBILEE 



CLOSING OF THE JUBILEE. 

The day was now spent, and the sun hiding 
his rich, mellow beams beyond the mountains of 
the west, admonished this gladsome group of 
heart-felt friends and kindred, that the last hour 
of social greetings had elapsed, and the time of 
parting had arrived. The sighs of separation 
now mingled with the joys of meeting. Now 
came the closing scene of the drama, the strong 
heart beatings, the lingering look, the parting 
hand, the last salutations of love ; and the ad- 
vancing twilight shrouded the emotions of the 
parting farewell. 



FAREWELL. 

4 And now as soon we sever, 
Each to his weary way, 
From memory's tablet, never, 
Shall pass this joyful day. 

And may the lesson taught us 
In days and hours gone by, 

By faithful hearts deep cherished, 
Lead to a home on high.' 



By Rufus H. Barlow. 

Mr. President : As the festivities of the occasion are 
now closed, I move that this Jubilee be adjourned to 
the last Thursday of August, 1895, at three o'clock in 
the afternoon, at this place. 

Voted unanimously. 

James Cooley, President. 
George W. Rose, Secretary. 



THE END. 



APPENDIX. 

EXTRACT FROM THE SPRINGFIELD GAZETTE. 

BY WILLIAM STOWE. 

THE GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

' Wednesday last, August 27th, was celebrated 
by the sons and daughters of Granville, as a day 
of Jubilee, commemorative of the fiftieth year of 
the labors of Rev. Timothy Mather Cooley, D. 
D., as pastor of the Congregational Church in 
East Granville. The concourse of people on the 
occasion was very great, filling the village church 
to overflowing. Among them were not a few 
who had gone out in times past, to various and 
distant parts of the Union, who had now returned 
to render their tribute of filial reverence and 
gratitude to the beloved pastor of their youth, 
and to interchange familiar greetings once more 
with the friends and neighbors of earlier days, 
around the patriarchal hearth stone. 
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122 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

The exercises at the church, commenced at 
10 o'clock, and were introduced by Invocation, 
and reading the 90th Psalm, by Rev. Roger Har- 
rison of Tolland, who in conclusion, addressed 
a few remarks to the congregation and to Doct. 
Cooley. 

The exercises of the morning closed about 
one o'clock, when the multitude repaired to a 
neighboring lot, where tables were spread with 
an abundance of refreshments. 

In the afternoon the church was again crowded, 
and an interesting sermon was preached by Rev. 
David Benton Coe, a son of Granville, and pastor 
of Allen Street Presbyterian Church in New 
York. The Lord's Supper was then administered 
by Rev. Mr. Davis of Westfield, and Rev. Mr t 
Hatch of Warwick. A beautiful set of two 
silver tankards and eight goblets for the commu- 
nion services, presented to the church by three 
sons of Granville, (David B. Coe, Jesse B. Spel- 
man, and Joseph J. West,) was upon the table, 
and the gift was acknowledged in appropriate 
terms by the venerable pastor. 

On Thursday, many of the sons and daughters 
remaining, a pic-nic party of some three or four 
hundred persons assembled in the field which 
they had occupied the previous day, and spent 
several hours in happy social intercourse. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 1'23 

Every thing passed off in the most happy 
manner, and the recollection of the Granville 
Jubilee, will be hallowed in the memory of her 
sons for many years to come. 

Great praise is due to the Committee of 
Arrangements, for their successful exertions, and 
although it was found impossible to provide seats 
in the church, which will hold at most but twelve 
or fifteen hundred, for all who were present, no 
one was disposed to complain because the com- 
mittee had not performed impossibilities in the 
amplitude of their arrangements. 



[From the New York Observer.] 

THE GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

Never since the creation, probably, have the 
hills of Granville, Mass., witnessed so lively a 
scene, as on the morning of August 27, 1845. 

It was the day appointed for the celebration of 
the 50th anniversary of the Installation of Rev. 
T. M. Cooley, D. D., as pastor of the church 
and society in that place. He was born, bred, 
and for fifty years has labored with great accept- 
ance and success in this parish, and still performs 
without assistance his arduous pastoral duties. 
A half century having elapsed since his ondina- 
tion. 



YZ\ GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

A circular was issued, inviting all the emigrants 
from Granville, to return and celebrate this 
anniversary with appropriate festivities. 

At an early hour, almost the entire population 
of the place, with multitudes from the neighboring 
towns assembled at the Congregational Church. 

The house was densely crowded in every part, 
and hundreds gathered around the windows, de- 
termined to be car witnesses, at least, of the novel 
exercises. 

The morning exercises were closed with prayer 
by Rev. Mr. Hinsdale, of Blandford. The assem- 
bly then formed a procession, and repaired to an 
adjoining field, where a bountiful entertainment 
had been provided by the citizens. The designed 
informality of the exercises rendered it doubly re- 
freshing. It afforded an opportunity to those who 
had been separated in childhood, to meet and re- 
vive amid those familiar scenes, the recollection of 
their early friendships. Of the 800 whom the 
venerable pastor had instructed in his study, many 
had returned after many years of absence, to greet 
once more their beloved instructor and spiritual 
father. Several who went forth forty years ago, 
to plant a church and colony in the wilderness of 
Ohio, were first revisiting the home of their 
childhood. Very few of the generation whom 
they left behind them, now survived. It was 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 125 

affecting to see these grey headed men, who as 
they looked in vain in each other's time worn 
faces, for the features which were so familiar in 
childhood, such a conflict of sad and joyful emo- 
tions are rarely excited by a single occasion. 

On the following day the citizens and emigrants 
assembled by invitation, and partook of a colla- 
tion on the shaded lawn where the entertainment 
of the previous day was prepared. Addresses 
were delivered by Rev. Doct. Cooley, Rev. Mr. 
Crowell, and Rev. Mr. Coe, of New York. 
Sentiments were offered expressive of veneration 
for the fathers and mothers of Granville ; of 
affection for the venerable Pastor, and of grati- 
tude to the citizens, whose kind hospitality had 
contributed so much to the interest of the occa- 
sion. 



II 



NAMES OF THE NATIVE EMIGRANTS FROM 
EAST GRANVILLE, NOW LIVING. 



David B. Coe, JYeio York. 
George N. Bates, Granville, JY. Y. 
Samuel M. Cocley, New Orleans, La. 
Sherman Bacon, St. Louis, Mo. 
Oliver C. Dickinson, Randolph, Ohio. 
Benjamin F. Bancroft, Granville, N. Y. 
Timothy C. Cooley, Metamora, la. 
Edwin Foote, Granville, JY. Y. 
Julia A. Foote, " " 

Enoch Drake, Freedom, Ohio. 
Isaac A. Cooley, Belleville, JY. J. 
Roger S. Moore, Southwick, Mass. 
Sarah A. Moore, " " 

Silas Winchell, Granville, Ohio. 
Martin Buell, Washington, D. C. 
Walter Dickinson, Randoljih, Ohio. 
William B. Cooley, Pittsfield, Mass. 
Mary S. Cooley, « " 

Junius H. Hatch, Detroit, Mich. 
Ebenezer Roberts, Hartford, Conn. 
Sarah E. Roberts, " " 

Joseph J. West, JYew York. 
John Barlow, Alabama. 
Caroline Bates, Rochester, JY. Y. 
Stephen N. Wright, Mishawaha, la. 



128 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

Almira Wright, Mishawaka, la. 
Richard Griffing, Wisconsin. 
Juliett Griffing, " 

Edwin A. Cooley, Attica, JY. Y. 
Timothy S. Gibbons, Westchester, JY. Y. 
Anson R. Taylor, Westmoreland, JY. Y. 
Henry Bacon, St. Louis, Mo. 
Patrick H. Boise, Providence, R. I. 
Watson Cooley, Illinois. 
Mary B. Snyder, " 
Cynthia Parsons, Detroit, Mich. 
Edmund M. King, Tariffville, Conn. 
Ralsamon L. Spelman, Albany. 
John A. Skiff, Windham, Ohio. 
Eliza Skiff, " « 

Clarilla Spelman, Pittsjield, Mass. 
Francis H. Cooley, Illinois. 

Moore, Freedom, Ohio. 
Sybil Moore, « " 

Frederick L. Cooley, Jacksonville, III. 
Warren Gillett, Pennsylvania. 
William Chickley, Jr. Southwick. 
Horace K. Cooley. 
Mary Ward, Charlestown. 
Mary A. Dean, Brownhclm, Ohio. 
Lucy Mead, Elkhart, Lid. 
William C. Thrall, Mishawaka, Ind. 
Cotton M. Thrall, Eden, Ohio. 
Susan E. Seymour, Springfield, Mass. 
George Cooley, Attica, JY. Y. 
Elizur Marvin, Fairport, Ohio. 
Susan Goodrich, Brownhelm, Ohio. 
Timothy L. Thrall, Granville, Ohio. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. I 3J ' 

Curtiss Hoavi\ (Iruirrille, Ohio. 
Sophia E. Seymour, Springfield, Mas 
Laura Parsons, " u 

Jane Drake, Westfield, Mass. 
Edwin Harvey, Providence, R. I. 
Jeremiah Munson, New Orleans, La. 
Jerusha Munson, Cleveland, Ohio. 
Edwin Wright, Granville, Ohio. 
Cotton M. Thrall, Berkshire, Ohio. 
Alexander Thrall, " " 

Curtiss Howe, Granville, Ohio. 
Helen Rose, Alexander, Ohio. 
Jonathan Whitne} 7 , Montville, Ohio. 
Seth Whitney, » " 

Victs Whitney, « « 

Francis Tinker, Columhus, Ohio. 
Samuel M. Rose, Burlington, Ohio. 
Spencer Spelman, Newark, Ohio. 
Thomas Spelman, Alexander, Ohio. 
Sylvester Spelman, Granville, Ohio. 
William Bancroft, " " 

Solon Spelman, Westfield, Mass. 
Oscar Spelman, Springfield, Mass. 
Charles Bancroft, " " 

Julietta Cooley, Attica, N. Y. 
Buell Spelman, Akron, Ohio. 
Jane Porter, Ncio Orleans, La. 
Ohel Spelman, Akron, Ohio, 
George W. Sanford, Tariffville, Ct. 
Randolph Sizer, Ottowa. 
Miranda Sizer, " 

Laura Goodwin, Cullinsville, Conn. 
Richard Cornwell, Hartford, Conn. 



130 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

Calista A. Corn well, Hartford, Conn. 
Luman Cooley, Philadelphia. 
Jerome B. Granger, Southxoick, Mass. 
James Ingraham, Hartford, Conn. 
Clarissa R. Ingraham, " " 

Enoch S. Bancroft, Wcstfield, Mass. 
Horatio Wells, In. Prairie, Iowa. 
Ely Strong, Springfield, Mass. 
Ardon A. Seymour, Tariffville, Conn. 
Harvey Seymour, " " 

Augustus Collins, Granby, Conn. 
Silas Rose, Springfield, Mass. 
John P. Parsons, Rochester, N. Y. 
Andrew J. Marvin, Southwick, Mass. 
Marytta Parsons, Hartford, Conn. 
Marshfield Parsons, Rochester, N. Y. 
William Tinker, Buenos Ayres, S. A. 
Levi Bancroft, Westfield, Mass. 
Joseph Parsons, Rochester, N. Y. 
William N. Marvin, Rockville, III. 
Walter Rose, Buffalo, JV. Y. 
William Jewell, Rochester, N. Y. 
Emily Jewell, " « 

Samuel Gould, " « 

Caroline Gould, " " 

Gideon D. Seymour, Randolph, Ohio. 
Chauncey Rose, Suffield, Conn. 
Augustus Ward, Farmington, Conn. 
Augustus Williams, Brooklyn, JV*. Y. 
Absalom Williams, Neto York. 
Loring Lane, Hartford, Ct. 
Harvey B. Spelman, Akron, Ohio. 
Asa N. Seymour, " " 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 131 

William Wells, Philadelphia. 
Caroline Tibbals, Newark, JY. J. 
James R. Hodge, Suffield, Conn. 
William Ward, Wcstville, Conn. 
Hosea Cooley, Granville, Ohio. 
Frederic Curtiss, New York. 
John B. Cooley, Burlington, Ohio. 
William H. Cooley, » " 

Samuel Barlow, Rochester, JY. Y. 
Otis H. Cooley, Springfield, Mass. 
Otis Hubbard, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Grove Cooley, Attica, JY. Y. 
Jacob S. Root, Granby, Ct. 
Bela Collins, Fond du lac, Wis. 
Lambert V. Elliot, Penn Yan, JY. Y. 
Sarah S. Elliot, " " 

Cotton M. Cooley, Windsor, Conn. 
William F. Eno, Springfield, Mass. 
John L. Holmes, " " 

Clarissa Bancroft, Hartford, Conn. 
Rosamund Harvey, Tallahassee, Flor. 
Cephas Strickland, Mica, JY. Y. 
Horace Ames, Amherst, Mass. 
William H. Ames, " " 

Hubbard Bartlett, Lee, Mass. 
Sophia Bartlett, " " 
Samuel Bancroft, Granville, Ohio. 
Tirzah Chandler, Westfield, Mass. 
William Crowell, Boston, Mass. 
Nancy Crowell, " " 

Matthew L. Coe, Randolph, Ohio. 
William Jones, Boston, Mass. 
Sophia Jones, " " 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

Levi Rose, Granville, Ohio. 
William J. Tibbals, Hartford, Ohio. 
J. W. Graham, Canton, Ct. 
Pamela Graham, " " 

Elijah Bates, Westjield, Mass. 
Heaton Granger, Southwick, Mass. 
Amanda Granger, " " 

Lincoln Tibbals, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Orsamus L. Drake, Freedom, Ohio. 
Gerard Bancroft, Granville, Ohio. 
Festus S. Barlow, Southicick, Mass. 
Jesse B. Spelman, JVeio York. 
Eliza C. Spelman, » " 
Francis Boise, Westjield, Mass. 
Ellen Barr, " " 

William Ward, Ncio Haven, Conn. 
Henry B. Gibbons, Flushing, N. Y. 
James Spelman, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Orrin D. Ranney, Maumee, Ohio. 
Timothy Hoag, Lee, Mass. 
Polly Hoag, " " 

Elizabeth Lloyd, Westjield, Mass. 
John Ames, Tallahassee, Flor. 
Chancey Adams, Collinsville, Conn. 
Andrew Hubbard, Springfield, Mass. 
Almira Hubbard, " « 

William Barlow, Alabama. 
Timothy Ranney, Maumee, Ohio. 
Timothy W. Gibbons, Franklin, N. Y. 
Ruby S. Gibbons, « " 

Walter Rose, Buffalo, JV. Y. 
Ezra M. Parsons, Rochester, N. Y. 
Timothy S. Gibbons, Westchester, JV. F. 



GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 133 

James Coe, Rootstoum, Ohio. 
Alpheus Gibbons, Railway, N. J. 
Madison Root, Greenville, III. 
James M. Root, Fall River, Mass. 
Samuel B. Barlow, New York. 
George Cooley, Milicaukie, Wis. 
Cephas Buttles, Winnebago, Iowa. 
Richard Cornwell, Hartford, Conn. 
Calista A. Cornwell, " " 

Rowland P. Cooley, Benson, Vt. 
Mila S. Cooley, " » 

Aurelius Dickinson, Claremont, N. II. 
Samuel L. M. Barlow, Neio York. 
Ralph Brown, Utica, N. Y. 
Jacob Bancroft, Collinsville, Ct. 
Cynthia Granger, Prairie clu Chicn, Wis. 
William Bancroft, Castile, N. Y. 
John Seymour, Wcstfield, Mass. 
James Thrall, Bennington, Ohio. 
Alexander Thrall, Berkshire, Ohio, 
Thomas Cooley, Attica^ Neio York. 
Daniel Cooley, Attica, New York. 
Marcia Parsons, Springfield, Mass. 
Horace Root, Wcstfield, Mass. 
Mary Root, " " 

Anson Clark, Waterloo, Neio York 
Watson Cooley, Illinois. 
Frederic L. Cooley, Vandalia, III. 
Horace K. Cooley, Frecport, III. 
Mary B. Snider, Maysville, III. 
Charles Cooley, Canandaigua, N. Y. 
Edwin White, Winchester, Conn. 
Henry J. Wright, Canton, " 
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134 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

Martin^S. Tinker, Bolivia, Ohio. 
John Rowell, Pittsfield, " 
Isaac Gibbons, Dalton, Mass. 
Benjamin Gibbons, Russell, JV. Y. 
Orla Gibbons, Fitz William, JV. Y. 
Roger U. Hatch, Warwick, Mass. 
Bronson K. Hatch, Monroe, Mich. 
Lyman W. Cowdery, Hartland, Conn. 
Maryett Cowdery, " " 

Augustin Munson, Granville, Ohio 
Lyman Root, Painesville, Ohio. 
Margarett Root, « " 

Hiram Rose, Granville, Ohio. 
Matthew L. Root, Fairport, Ohio. 
Emily Root, " " 

Edwin Rose, Buffalo, JV. Y. 
Ralzamon, Spelman, Albany JV. Y. 
Harmon Graves, Ashtabula, Ohio. 
Roland Ives, Ives* Grove, Wis. 
Benjamin R. Spelman, Albany, JV. F. 
Jasper Marvin, Lima, JV. Y. 
Persis Marvin, " " 
Arba Lambson, Ann Arbor, Mich. 
Ralzamon Church, Painesville, Ohio. 
Silas Noble, Springfield, Mass. 
Josephus Rose, Gencseo, JV. Y. 
Joseph Lambson, Moscow, JV. Y. 
Lemuel J. Bancroft, Castile, JV. Y. 
Rolla Spelman, Rochester, JV. Y. 
Thomas Gillett, Springfield, Mass. 
Jarvis Gillett, Springfield, Mass. 
William Harvey, Providence, R. I. 
Alvin Holcomb, Colesvillc, JV. Y. 



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Horace Holcomb, Colesville,JY. Y. 
Alvin Holcombe, Jr. " " 

Lewis Holcombe, " '* 

Julia M. Watrons, « " 

Jerome B. Granger, Southwick, Mass. 
William M. Holcomb, Rrooldyn, HI. 
Marytta Rice, Springfield, Mass. 
Eliza Parsons, " " 

Milton Hayes, Granby, Conn. 
Elvira Hayes, " " 

Rebecca P. Boise, Westfield, Mass. 
Germanicus Cooley, Columbus, Ohio. 
Frederick Parsons, Sjningfield, Mass. 
Lee Rowley, Granville, Ohio. 
Lucinda Watkins, Rutland, Vt. 
Phineas Rowley, Gaines, JV. Y. 
Roswell Rowley, New York. 
Lurena Whitney, Huntsburgh, Ohio. 
Harriet Rhoads, Montville, Ohio. 
Philemon Cooley, Lochport, JV. Y. 
Collins Seymour, Svffield, Ct. 
Anson Clark, XJtica, JV. Y. 
Warham Miller, Woodstock, Vt. 
Friend Northway, Attica, JV. Y. 
Daniel Webster, Lodi, Ohio. 
Oliver Bancroft, Marcellus, JV. Y. 
Dan Stow, Ohio. 



NAMES OF THE REPRESENTATIVES TO THE 
GENERAL COURT FROM GRANVILLE. 



1775, Timothy Robinson, Nathan Barlow. 

1776, None chosen. 

1777, Timothy Robinson, Nathan Barlow. 
1773, None chosen. 

1779, Oliver Phelps, Timothy Robinson. 

1780, Oliver Phelps, Josiah Harvey. 

1781, Timothy Robinson. 

1782, None chosen. 

1783, Timothy Robinson. 

1784, None chosen. 

1785, Timothy Robinson. 

1786, William Cooley. 

1787, Timothy Robinson, Titus Fowler. 

1788, Samuel Thrall, John Hamilton. 

1789, Clark Cooley. 

1790, Timothy Robinson, James Hamilton. 

1791, Thomas Burbank, James Hamilton. 

1792, Timothy Robinson. 
3793, Timothy Robinson. 

1794, David Robinson, Titus Fowler. 

1795, Enoch Bancroft, David Robinson, 

1796, None chosen. 

1797, David Robinson, Ezra Marvin. 

1798, Ezra Marvin, Jacob Bates. 

1799, John Phelps, James Hamilton. 

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138 GRANVILLE JUBILEE. 

1800, Israel Parsons, David Robinson. 

1801, Israel Parsons, Thomas Hamilton. 

1802, Israel Parsons, John Phelps. 

1803, Israel Parsons, Titus Fowler. 

1804, Israel Parsons, John Phelps. 

1805, Israel Parsons, John Phelps. 

1806, Abraham Granger. 

1807, Enoch Bancroft, Abraham Granger. 

1808, Israel Parsons, John Phelps. 

1809, Israel Parsons, John Phelps. 

1810, Israel Parsons, William Twining. 

1811, None chosen. 

1812, Asa Seymour, John Phelps. 

1813, Israel Parsons, David Curtiss. 

1814, James Barlow, David Curtiss. 

1815, James Cooley, David Curtiss. 

1816, James Cooley, Perry Babcock. 

1817, James Cooley, Perry Babcock. 

1818, James Cooley, Reuben Hills. 

1819, James Cooley, Reuben Hills. 

1820, James Barlow, Francis Stebbins. 

1821, Joel Root. 

1822, Francis Stebbins. 

1823, Joel Root. 

1824, Francis Stebbins. 

1825, James Cooley. 

1826, Hezekiah Robinson. 

1827, Jonathan B. Bancroft. 

1828, Patrick Boise. 

1829, James Cooley. 

1830, Patrick Boise. 

1831, Jonathan B. Bancroft. 

1832, Elijah Seymour, Noah Cooley. 



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1833, Samuel Root, Denison Parsons. 

1834, Elijah Seymour, Noah Cooley 

1835, Alpheus Bancroft, Denison Parsons, 

1836, Elijah Seymour, Levi Parsons. 

1837, Elijah Seymour. 

1838, Francis Peebles. 

1839, Samuel Root. 

1840, Aaron L. Curtiss. 

1841, James Root. 

1842, William C. Dunham. 

1843, Henry Clark. 

Hon. Patrick Boise, Executive Counsellor, 1832. 
Hon. Patrick Boise, Senator, 1833. 

Hon. Patrick Boise, Senator, 1834. 

Hon. Isaac Chapman Bates, U. S. Senator, 1840. 



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